Million loo rolls a day to stop nation being caught short

situation means we have seen a large spike in demand over the last week and sales continue to be very strong.

“Our excellent supply chain team has met all our sales orders so far and our manufacturing is geared up to meet these higher volumes.

“We are continually monitoring the situation very carefully and are studying sales patterns of the experiences our colleagues had in Italy a number of weeks ago to anticipate how this will develop.”

Supermarket bosses are pleading with customers to “shop normally” after mass panic buying.

Mike Coupe, CEO at Sainsbury’s, said we should “shop just for the food that we and our families need”.

Sainsbury’s have also said it has more stock of essentials in its warehouse.

Aldi, Asda, Teso, Sainsbury’s, Waitrose and Morrisons have all placed restrictions on certain products to stop shoppers stockpiling.

Some supermarkets are changing their opening hours to cope.

One Tesco will no longer be open for 24-hours so staff can replenish the shelves and some Iceland stores are having parts of the day where only people over the age of 65 can shop.

The Tesco Extra store in Talbot Green will close between the hours of midnight and 6am so staff can replenish shelves.

Aldi issued a statement on Monday morning to reassure customers that all of its suppliers and warehouse staff were working round the clock to ensure their stores were fully stocked.

They said: “We have increased orders from our suppliers and our warehouses have sufficient stock to replenish all stores.

“This includes all of the essentials such as sanitary and baby products.”