The second pack of toilet paper costs more

With the number of corona infections, toilet paper sales are on the rise again in Germany. According to the Federal Statistical Office, toilet paper sales in mid-October were almost double the average for the months preceding the crisis from August 2019 to January 2020. And the first images of empty shelves appeared on social media again. . So what can you do for hamster purchases? A supermarket in Rostock surprises customers with an unusual idea.

In the Rewe store in the Groß Klein district, customers have to pay a corona surcharge for toilet paper. For the second package 5 euros more are due and for the third 10 euros more, reports the “Ostsee-Zeitung”. “To ensure that all customers receive toilet paper and kitchen towels, we apply a corona surcharge of 5 euros from the second pack,” the newspaper quoted from a notice on a shelf.

An employee told the “Ostsee-Zeitung” that customers recently bought four or five packs of toilet paper. This was held back by the impact. “Now you only buy one package,” the newspaper employee Rewe quotes.

The bottom line, however, is that the result is the same: even in the Rostock supermarket the shelves have been empty for days due to hamster purchases.