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Business Wars Daily

Cleaning Crisis? Walmart Stokes Dish Soap Shortage Fears

Business Wars Daily

Wondery

News, Daily News, Business News, Business

4.6716 Ratings

🗓️ 8 November 2019

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Today is Friday, November 8, and we’re looking at Dawn vs. Palmolive.


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The From Wondry, I'm David Brown, and this is Business Wars Daily on this Friday, November 8th, 2019.

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It sounds like a spoof, but this really happened.

1:19.6

Late last month, Walmart warned that we are in the throes of a national dish soap shortage.

1:26.5

A national dish soap shortage. Procter & Gamble, which owns Dawn, a dish soap that's been around since, oh, the beginning

1:27.7

of time, apparently cautioned the huge retailer that it hadn't made quite enough of this stuff.

1:33.5

As a result, Walmart posted signs on store shelves that the soap apocalypse was nigh.

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Signs in stores all across the country warned of a national supply shortage through December 1st.

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But there were a few strange things about those warnings.

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First, Walmart typically doesn't post signs like that unless a shelf is actually empty or close to it.

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In many locations, behind those warnings were shelves crammed full of dish soap. Second, the retailer didn't

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