Story originally appeared in the Wall Street Journal on March 23, 2020. Excerpt from the story below. To see the full story visit wsj.com.

Retail sales of paper towels, black beans and tuna rose roughly 150% in the week ended March 14 vs the year-earlier week, according to market-research firm Nielsen. About 90% of shoppers said they experienced outages of some items, and a third said most items were out of stock, in a survey of 1,000 people by supply-chain consultancy Blue Yonder.