Toilet paper sales reportedly drop after a year of panic buying

Americans are still working through the stockpiles of toilet paper they began hoarding at the onset of the pandemic — and now sales are tanking, a new report says.

Toilet paper sales in January were 4.3 percent lower than the same month last year, before the onset of COVID-19 spurred consumers to amass rolls by the dozen, according to the Wall Street Journal. That was followed by a 14 percent year-over-year slide in February and a 33 percent plunge in March, reflecting the explosion of panic buying that swept the nation last spring, the paper reported Wednesday, citing data from NielsenIQ.