Survey: Households Consider Second COVID Wave of Hoarding

More than half of all Americans are planning as winter approaches to replenish stockpiles of goods they originally hoarded at the outbreak of the novel coronavirus, while nearly as many plan to have a supply on hand at all times in case of another emergency, a marketing company’s survey says.

Toilet paper, hand sanitizer, paper towels, disinfectant wipes and canned goods were the top items 57% of shoppers were intending to amass, while 54% of those queried by Inmar Marketing, a Winston-Salem, North Carolina, data research firm, said they were planning to have reserves of the items now and in the future.