The ongoing coronavirus outbreak has caused a toilet paper panic-buying frenzy, with customers flooding large retailers like Costco and even becoming unruly over fears that essential items — like toilet paper — may soon deplete.
But it also seems that many people have been outfitting their bathrooms with another option: the bidet. Home product company Brondell, which sells various types of bidet toilet seats and attachments as well as heated toilet seats, has seen an increase in sales over the last few days, company spokesperson Daniel Lalley told Business Insider.
Lalley said Brondell is selling a bidet on Amazon every two minutes, or about one thousand units per day. The company earned $100,000 in one day this week through Amazon sales, an “exponential” increase over an average day, according to Lalley…