A Kroger in Dallas also had stock. Yet in Forney, shelves in the toilet paper section were relatively empty. The dockworker strike has dragged into its third day with long lines of container ships ...

Video footage on Wednesday showed vast, empty shelves of toilet paper, paper towels and facial tissues. One segment posted by FreedomNews.TV shows just a few pallets of Kleenex at the Costco on ...

And paper towels and toilet tissue were sold out. Suddenly, the crowds, the empty shelves, the rationing made the coronavirus much more than headlines. "Before it was a scare,'' Thursby said.

Videos on social media show people panic-buying toilet paper in response to Tuesday’s major port strike, leading to shortages and empty shelves in stores nationwide. But it’s all unnecessary.