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Even with a mild panic buying spree a few months back, it was easy to find toilet paper and clorox wipes around my areas. A far cry from earlier in 2020 where it was so hard to find both in stores.
You may have a way better chance of finding Clorox's popular disinfecting wipes down the cleaning aisle of your supermarket now that the very worst of the COVID-19 pandemic ,consumer-product buying hysteria appears to be slowing just a bit.
"For the most part, people can find all the bleach they need and we are bringing other cleaners like Pine-Sol and sprays back online. Wipes we have made great progress on. We went from last quarter making about a million canisters of wipes per day for retail to a million and a half canisters of wipes, and we will increase that even more as we head into our fourth quarter," Clorox CEO Linda Rendle told Yahoo Finance Live. "They are still difficult to find, but more help is on the way and people are telling us more stories of finding them on the shelves."
This is true. And I never really bought the wipes but when Covid started I got a few containers and I think we used 1/2 of one. Still have 2 waiting. So apologies to all as I confess that I contributed to the shortage with my 3 canisters.
In my area the never heard of before brands have been available for months in every category of those cleaning supplies. Besides that rebound shortage of the major brand toilet paper a month ago along with Purell hand sanitizer and Lysol spray the pre pandemic panic brands of a year ago are back on the shelves and starting to push the new brands without advertising off of the space they had on supermarket shelves.
I would guess that with any local run the off brands would be rushed back on those shelves but in the meantime they are also at all the 99 type discount stores and even the TJ Maxx, Ross type discount clothes stores.
I don't know where you guys are, but here in Oregon the cleaning supply aisles in the stores are still virtually empty, even at store opening time. I just had to pay $55 for five bottles of 409 cleaner on Amazon, because I was almost completely out and that was the best price I could find anywhere. Even then it took over a month to receive it. I guess some shopper somewhere spent a month searching through store shelves trying to find those five bottles.
I'm still kicking myself, because on my last trip to Walmart, they had four of the large packs of Bounty paper towels, but three of them were on the top rack and I couldn't reach them. So I just took the one pack. I should have found one of the non-existent employees, to climb up there for me and get them down and taken all four packs. Because, who knows when I will be able to buy Bounty paper towels again.
For hand wipes, the only ones I really like are Target's Up&Up antibacterial hand wipes. The last time I was in Target last summer, I asked an employee about them, he told me, "Well if we have any, they should be right in this area". There was nothing there. At that time they were selling on eBay for about $25 for a 75 pack. I didn't want to pay the price gougers, so I didn't order them. But that was a big mistake. Not only did Target not get them back in stock, they have now been completely removed form Target's website.
A while back I did manage to buy one pack of Walmart's brand of wipes, but they are not very good. I need some more soon, so I'm going to order some Wet Ones antibacterial hand wipes from Amazon for $14.23. But they are still not as good as the Target brand. This is getting expensive. I guess this is what it feels like to live in a third world country.
They are just trying to get people to stop buying them, because schools need those limited supplies in order to reopen. It was the same BS in the beginning when they told people not to buy masks, so medical workers could have them. The FDA is not looking out for your best interest. It's just government propaganda based on what they want you to do at the time.
We really never had problem with sanitizers or disinfectants as a whole. What we a shortage or vacancy of was consumer "Brand" name products in convenient familiar forms. What most consumers have not grasp was the EPA's "N" list which essentially identified every product that works against the virus and the contact time for it to be effective. I was also surprised to see how many brand name products people were buying that did not work against the virus; they were more like antibacterial or just cleaners, not disinfectants or sanitizer.
I think there are so many effective non branded products now available that the brand name products aren't being scarfed up as fast as they were in the initial stages of the panic. I know that I have no reason to spend the extra on "Clorox" or "Lysol" branded products when cheaper, easier to obtain and just as or more effective alternative products are available.
We still haven't finished the Clorox wipes I bought back in March. I used to bring some to the grocery store to wipe the cart but then the stores started having them at the entrance or disinfecting the carts themselves. What do you use them for?
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I guess some shopper somewhere spent a month searching through store shelves trying to find those five bottles. 
