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Why is it that we consumers are used to daily, weekly and monthly price fluctuations with this product? What other consumer product is priced that way besides John Ashcroft and Paris Hilton CDs which start high and end low? Using the same pricing strategy, I would expect toilet paper to be priced the same way. The material is a natural resource. Environmentalists say there's an ever dwindling supply of rain forests providing this needed end-product. (pun)
The law of supply and demand works here too. Let's see. Let's price Charmin TP at 58 cents/roll this week, cut production and supply; demand goes up, then charge a buck a roll the next week. At the rate our household goes through TP, that's a significant amount of money going down the drain (pun).
However, I don't thing this would work for TP. The TP cartel, oh there is one, realizes entrepeneurs will merely head to Iowa and purchase the entire years crop of corn cobs to take care of demand. More enterprising consumers might go on a low-fiber diet and automatically reduce their consumption of TP.
Stress is also known to cause constipation and thus less need for TP. Have you ever encountered a roll with only 3 squares left on it, and no spares in sight or convenient access? That situation produces stress even if there's a ready supply of ass-gaskets on hand. In the long term, planned stress risors such as this could result in massive stock losses in the TP industry. OTOH, imagine the money corporations will save by reducing the frequency of bathroom breaks.
We need something similar with oil and fuel.
Sherwood
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