Major supermarkets are working to replenish the stocks of toilet paper at Orange stores after a second wave of panic buying has emptied shelves.
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Coles has limited customers to buying one pack of toilet paper and paper towels while Woolworths is restricting purchases to two packs per customer.
An Aldi spokeswoman said they had not introduced restrictions but were monitoring the situation.
Spokespeople for the supermarkets said they had not re-directed supplies from Orange and NSW to Victoria where panic buying has increased following the spread of COVID-19 cases.
We have plenty of stock for all of us.
- Claire Peters, Woolworths managing director
Instead, they said the empty shelves in Orange and NSW were due to panic buying.
Shelves at some Orange stores were empty of toilet paper over the past weekend.
However, the stores said shelves were being re-filled as stocks arrived.
Woolworths Supermarkets managing director Claire Peters said they reacted last week after seeing "elevated demand for toilet roll" outside Victoria.
"We have ordered more than 650,000 additional packs of toilet roll into our network, which is an increase of more than 30 percent on our usual volumes," she said.
"We have plenty of stock for all of us."
In Victoria the restrictions have included re-introducing limits on other items including hand sanitiser, flour, sugar, pasta, mince, long-life milk, eggs and rice.
However, those products have not been limited in Orange and NSW.
All the supermarkets are urging people to buy responsibly to ensure there were supplies available for everyone.
They said once buying habits eased they would remove the limits.
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