{"id":38322,"date":"2020-03-03T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-03T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/rations-are-now-place-supermarkets-run-out-toilet-paper\/"},"modified":"2020-03-03T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-03-03T00:00:00","slug":"rations-are-now-place-supermarkets-run-out-toilet-paper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/news\/rations-are-now-place-supermarkets-run-out-toilet-paper\/","title":{"rendered":"Rations Are Now In Place As Supermarkets Run Out Of Toilet Paper"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Woolworths supermarkets are now limiting sales of toilet paper to four packs per transaction in response to panic buying linked to coronavirus fears.<\/h3>\n<p>According to a Woolworths spokesperson:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cIt will help shore up stock levels as suppliers ramp up local production and deliveries in response to higher than usual demand.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur teams are continuing to work hard on restocking stores with long-life food and groceries from our distribution centres.\u201d [source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theaustralian.com.au\/business\/companies\/costco-shoppers-strip-shelves-of-toilet-paper-essentials-as-coronavirus-fears-rise\/news-story\/b437202484e24ad3ef0a884e478ee138\" target=\"_blank\">theaustralian.com.au]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Woolworths is limiting the sale of toilet paper amid the panic buying across the country. Customers are only allowed to purchase four packets in total. Rules apply in store and online <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/FIVEAANews?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#FIVEAANews<\/a><\/p>&mdash; FIVEAA (@1395FIVEAA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/1395FIVEAA\/status\/1234933974859825152?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 3, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\n\n  <img src=https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/screen_shot_2020-03-04_at_8.22.38_am.png height=\"394\" width=\"589\" class=\"media-element file-default\" delta=\"1\" alt=\"\" \/>\n  <noscript><img src=https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/screen_shot_2020-03-04_at_8.22.38_am.png height=\"394\" width=\"589\" class=\"media-element file-default\" delta=\"1\" alt=\"\" ><\/noscript>\n\n<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday PM Scott Morrison spoke with both Coles and Woolworths about pressures on their supply chains.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cWhat they were able to feed back to me was very positive,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd I\u2019m pleased with the plans that they have in place. The prolific nature of this is by being presented on social media and things like that is not as widespread as those images suggest.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd they\u2019ve got measures in place to deal with that. There are obviously some lines which will be more tested in the short term, but they\u2019re working on those.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p><\/p>&#13;\n&#13;\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/video.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2F1395FIVEAA%2Fvideos%2F189496732308910%2F&#038;show_text=1&#038;width=560\" width=\"560\" height=\"382\" style=\"border:none;overflow:hidden\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowTransparency=\"true\" allow=\"encrypted-media\" allowFullScreen=\"true\"><\/iframe>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Woolworths supermarkets are now limiting sales of toilet paper to four packs per transaction in response to panic buying linked to coronavirus fears. According to a Woolworths spokesperson: \u201cIt will help shore up stock levels as suppliers ramp up local production and deliveries in response to higher than usual demand. \u201cOur teams are continuing to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":38246,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[144],"tags":[246,245],"geo_market":[],"class_list":["post-38322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-fiveaa-app","tag-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Rations Are Now In Place As Supermarkets Run Out Of Toilet Paper - FIVEAA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/news\/rations-are-now-place-supermarkets-run-out-toilet-paper\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Rations Are Now In Place As Supermarkets Run Out Of Toilet Paper\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Woolworths supermarkets are now limiting sales of toilet paper to four packs per transaction in response to panic buying linked to coronavirus fears. 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