A year on from the first coronavirus lockdown, who is still hoarding tomatoes and toilet paper?
The IndependentTrue, there are other things too that spring to mind when I think back to the onset of the first lockdown a year ago. Never mind that it was a brand I’d never heard off Clearly though, the hoarding of toilet rolls got beyond a joke, even if they are intended for use by arseholes. As luck would have it, I’d bought a packet of a dozen loo rolls shortly before that first wave of panic set in. Every time I went to the shops, I looked longingly for the soft eyes of the Andrex puppy, but his comforting glance was nowhere to be seen – no doubt shut away in darkness, along with bread flour and tinned tomatoes in some other blighter’s store cupboard or garage. It wasn’t long afterwards, however, that supply-chain issues began to be ironed out and loo paper shortages eased.
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