Clorox: Wipes won’t be fully stocked in stores until summer

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Clorox has increased production by 40% to meet increased demand but company officials say it will still be summer before they are able to fully stock shelves again with many of their products, including sanitizing wipes.

"So if you go to stores, we're shipping to our stores every single day. But what we're shipping is pretty much scooped up right away. So it's gone after a few minutes," CEO of Clorox, Benno Dorer told Yahoo Finance. "Clearly there's an unprecedented demand spike for some of our products, in particular wipes. We've seen spikes of up to 500% in terms of demand and no supply chain in our industry is built to satisfy that demand increase in a short period of time."

The company is working with suppliers to further increase production.

"And we think that there's going to be substantial improvement this summer," Dorer told Yahoo. "It's going to be touch and go until then, unfortunately, but help is on the way and I think should ease up in the next few months."

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