Did Costco Issue a Recall Notice for Toilet Paper?







Even if COVID-19 hasn't infected the entire population, a mania for buying bathroom tissue apparently has. 







































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['Costco has issued a recall for their Kirkland Signature brand of bath tissue.', 'The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic in early 2020 prompted a run on stores by consumers stocking up on common foodstuffs and dry goods supplies, most notably toilet paper.', 'In the U.S., the Costco chain of wholesale warehouse club stores was hit particularly hard by a worried public seemingly bent on hoarding the entire available supply of bathroom tissue:', 'I feel like this is the video that perfectly depicts how far we’ve come as civilized species. I present to you the Toilet Paper Rush of 2020, in #Costco stores. #Covid_19 #CoronaOutbreak pic.twitter.com/hKzjqgwk6p', '— Officer Bandit 👮🏻\u200d♀️🦝 🇺🇸 (@OfficerBandit) March 12, 2020', '', 'Mid-March 2020 saw the spread via social media of a purported notice from Costco informing consumers that the company had issued a recall of their Kirkland Signature brand of bath tissue because it had been “contaminted [sic] with Coronavirus outbreak” and was “containted [sic] due to the item being manufactred [sic] in China”:', '', 'If the atrocious misspellings evident throughout the alleged recall notice weren’t enough to give it away as a fake, the fact that it was virtually identical to another hoax about recalled toilet paper perpetrated by a fake news website should have.', 'Not surprisingly, the Recalls & Product Notices section of Costco’s official website lists no such recall.', 'Costco.com. \xa0 “Recalls & Product Notices.”\n\xa0 \xa0 Accessed 14 March 2020.', 'Rumors about antifa plotting violence have coincided with the month of July and Gettysburg before.', 'A complete story is rarely told in a headline.', 'Social media rumors that two memorials in New York were vandalized proved misleading.', 'In August 2019, a 23-year-old unarmed Black man died after an encounter with police officers in Aurora, Colorado.', 'A chaotic scene in St. Louis sparked outrage, memes, and confusion.', 'Socialite Ghislaine Maxwell was arrested on sex abuse charges connected to convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.', 'The white supremacist group made frequent use of the slogan more recently embraced by President Donald Trump, though they did not, as some claim, invent it.', "The question of past arrests often surfaces among people who want to rationalize police officers' actions when Black men are killed in custody.", 'You can claim anything if you remove the barrier of evidence.', 'Rumors about antifa plotting violence have coincided with the month of July and Gettysburg before.', '© 1995 - 2020 by Snopes Media Group Inc.', 'This material may not be reproduced without permission.', 'Snopes and the Snopes.com logo are registered service marks of Snopes.com']
Did Costco Issue a Recall Notice for Toilet Paper?