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This is why everyone is hoarding toilet paper

Source: Ars Technica

Grocery shopping during a pandemic is already a strange experience involving sanitizing carts and maintaining social distance. But why does it also include whole aisles of empty shelves where toilet paper should be?

This entry was posted in The Stuff of Consumer Culture and tagged Culture & Society, Current Events on March 30, 2020 by Mikki Gibson.

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