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The case of the missing toilet paper: How the coronavirus exposed U.S. supply chain flaws

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✍️ Author: Jen Wieczner

🔖 Topics: COVID-19

🏢 Organizations: Amazon, Costco, Kimberly-Clark, Procter & Gamble, Walmart


Before executives at consumer-goods giant Kimberly-Clark rushed to shut their offices on Friday the 13th of March, they convened for one last emergency meeting. Commuting home that final time, Arist Mastorides, president of family care for North America, stopped at his local Walmart, on the edge of Lake Winnebago in Neenah, Wis., to see the emergency firsthand. Mastorides oversees toilet paper brands like Cottonelle and Scott, but that evening he could find none of his own products. “A long gondola shelf that’s completely empty of bathroom and facial tissue, I never in my life thought I would ever see that,” he says. “That’s a very unsettling thing.”

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