"The Tampax team is producing tampons 24/7 to meet the increased demand for our products," the company said in a statement to NBC. While Procter & Gamble recognizes the shortage, their claim that Schumer's ad is the cause of it presents a further batch of questions that they don't have a clear answer for beyond statements that efforts are being made to fix it. I would say it's been like this for a solid six months," says Michelle Wolfe, a radio host in Bozeman, Montana. "To put it bluntly, tampons are next to impossible to find. "What's been going on for a couple months is that organizations call us up and say, 'we need tampons,' and we go to our warehouse and there's nothing there," Dana Marlowe, the founder of I Support the Girls said in a quote to Time.
In response to the claim, Schumer posted a screenshot of an article on the shortage that used an image of her ad and commented "Whoa I don't even have a uterus."
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