{"id":1509394,"date":"2022-06-09T12:35:51","date_gmt":"2022-06-09T16:35:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1509394"},"modified":"2022-06-09T12:36:02","modified_gmt":"2022-06-09T16:36:02","slug":"amy-schumer-cited-as-reason-for-tampon-shortage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/amy-schumer-cited-as-reason-for-tampon-shortage\/","title":{"rendered":"Amy Schumer Cited As Reason For Tampon Shortage"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Famy-schumer-cited-as-reason-for-tampon-shortage%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1509394&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Procter &#038; Gamble, noting the shortage of tampons nationwide, blames comedian Amy Schumer\u2019s ad for their product\u2019s rise in demand.<\/p>\n<p>P&#038;G makes Tampax, the best-selling tampon brand in America. Schumer\u2019s 2020 ad campaign featured her as a tampon supplier helping women get tampons.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRetail sales growth has exploded\u201d since the ad campaign, spokeswoman Cheri McMaster told <a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/6184644\/tampon-shortage-supply-chain\/\">TIME<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cP&#038;G said in its most recent earnings call that it was still having trouble sourcing raw materials for feminine care products, getting them to the places that need them, and getting products on trucks to retailers,\u201d TIME added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo put it bluntly, tampons are next to impossible to find,\u201d radio host \u00a0Michelle Wolfe stated. \u201cI would say it\u2019s been like this for a solid six months.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAmazon sellers were taking advantage of the shortage; in January, one box of 18 Tampax listed for $114, about six dollars more\u2014per tampon\u2014than women usually pay,\u201d TIME stated.<\/p>\n<p>Thyme Sullivan, the CEO and co-founder of The Organic Project, which makes tampons in Europe, said shipping tampons to the U.S. has become 300% more expensive since last year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAmazon is out of stock of nearly every brand and variety, especially the most popular brands,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/amazon-and-other-online-stores-have-run-out-of-tampons-2020-3\">Business Insider<\/a> reported in March regarding the tampon shortage. \u201cDepending on the product, Amazon is promising to deliver as soon as anywhere from 4 to 5 days from now to several weeks. Other items make no promises on the delivery date at all, but just say \u2018currently unavailable.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have thousands of PG employees working around-the-clock to continue serving consumers, as many of our products play an important role in maintaining healthy habits and a healthy home environment, both critically important at this time,\u201d a spokesperson for P &#038; G said in March. \u201cWe are maximizing production and distribution capacity where possible to ensure we can get products to as many consumers as quickly as possible. We are taking the right steps to safeguard our workplaces through appropriate social distancing and work-from-home protocols.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Melissa Suk, vice president of North America Tampax and Always for P&#038;G, saw Schumer\u2019s 2019 Netflix special and thought an ad campaign featuring Schumer would work, <a href=\"https:\/\/adage.com\/article\/cmo-strategy\/tampax-gets-amy-schumer-pitch-tampons\/2266201?utm_medium=social&#038;utm_source=facebook&#038;utm_term=ad+age&#038;utm_content=814c035f-1c4c-475e-8793-ef43b62b3191\">Ad Age<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe really wanted to normalize things by making period and tampon conversations as normal as periods,\u201d Suk said. \u201cThere\u2019s a lot of taboo really preventing people from asking the right questions, and a lot of misunderstanding when it comes to education about both your body and your periods and how you use tampons. We knew the only way we were going to be successful at that was to use humor. Frankly, in our category, a lot of celebrities may not be interested in talking about tampons or periods.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Schumer\u2019s ad campaign, which educated women about the use of tampons and the various sizes available to them, \u00a0included titles such as \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BicWNagCwSQ\">What\u2019s Your Combo? Time To Tampax with Amy Schumer<\/a>,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=b_NstgBFE2w\">How to Insert a Tampon: Time To Tampax with Amy Schumer<\/a>,\u201d and \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3nGa7ywJexE\">Let\u2019s Talk About It: Time To Tampax with Amy Schumer<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The campaign was created by campaign, created by Publicis Groupe, MSL and Schumer\u00a0with the comedian\u2019s comedy writing team and was directed by Kathy Fusco of Hungryman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Procter &#038; Gamble, noting the shortage of tampons nationwide, blames comedian Amy Schumer\u2019s ad for their product\u2019s rise in demand. P&#038;G makes Tampax, the best-selling tampon brand in America. Schumer\u2019s 2020 ad campaign featured her as a tampon supplier helping women get tampons. \u201cRetail sales growth has exploded\u201d since the ad campaign, spokeswoman Cheri McMaster &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":1509472,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1509394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1509394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1509394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1509394\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1509472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1509394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1509394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1509394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}