How much toilet paper did you go through over the lockdown? Don't answer that but you might be surprised to learn that Countdown sold enough toilet paper to cover the distance to the moon and back. In simpler terms, more than 21 million rolls of toilet paper were sold between the end of February and the end of May at Countdown alone. Other popular products over the Covid-19 lockdown were flour, baking powder, yeast, avocados, hair dye, long-life milk, soy milk and tuna. "Vitamin C was the toilet paper of the vitamin and supplement category," Foodstuffs NZ's head of corporate affairs Antoinette Laird said.

Source: Otago Daily Times June 23, 2020 04:41 UTC