Video surfaces of Taiwan Costco customers jostling to grab their share of a fresh batch of toilet paper
Taiwan News
Date: 2018/02/27
By: Keoni Everington, Taiwan News, Staff Writer
TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — As fear of a shortage toilet paper continues to spook Taiwanese
Screenshot of video posted on Breaking News Commune Facebook page.
consumers, panic buying has continued, and video has surfaced of a crowd clambering for some fresh rolls after a new pallet of toilet paper arrived at a Costco in Taiwan yesterday (Feb. 26).
At 6:30 p.m. yesterday a user of the popular Facebook platform Breaking News Commune (爆廢公社) posted video of the moment a pallet stacked with packages of toilet paper hit the store’s floor. As the video begins, a mob of customers is already surrounding the stack of toilet tissue packages and before the 16-second video is complete, the pallet has been picked completely clean.
At the time of publication, the video had already racked up 309,000 views within 19 hours.
Despite repeated assurances from the government that supplies are stable and that they will not rise until mid-March, many Taiwanese consumers have continued to swarm retail outlets across the country in attempt to stock up before the price hike goes into effect.
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