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Grocery stores were packed with big crowds and long lines as latest spike of COVID-19 cases prompted panic buying across the country on March 12, 2020 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. (Creative Touch Imaging Ltd./NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Americans have been hoarding products

FairWarning Staff - FairWarning
An aisle of toilet paper is nearly empty at a Kroger grocery store. (Jeremy Hogan/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Why are people hoarding toilet paper?

Jay L. Zagorsky - The Conversation
After waiting in line for hours, women stand outside a supermarket in Caracas, Venezuela, with their price regulated toilet paper made available for sale by the government, Friday, Jan. 22, 2016. In a note published Friday, the International Monetary Fund Western Hemisphere Director Alejandro Werner said inflation would more than double in the economically struggling South American country in 2016, reaching 720 percent. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano) (AP)

Stop buying all the toilet paper

Carrington Tatum - The Texas Tribune
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Joanna Rothkopf
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Lindsay Abrams
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