If we cast our minds back to March 2020 when the internet was flooded with panic buyers scooping tonnes of loo roll, it causes a little shudder.
When the Covid-19 pandemic first swept the UK, several items were in short supply, including basic food staples like pasta and rice.
And while we obsessively focused on keeping our hands as clean as possible to stop the spread of the virus, it became almost impossible to find hand sanitiser in the shops.
Shelves were emptied and supermarkets had to place limits on the number of items you could buy at any one time.
The little bottles of alcohol gel became hot property, with reports that people were buying it up and selling it for a handsome profit online.
Now, 15 months into the pandemic, the world's population is slowly but surely being vaccinated, hospitalisation rates are coming down in places where lots of people have had the jab, and there are little glimmers of hope that we could be nearing the finish line.
A photo posted on Reddit taken in a Walmart store in the US shows a bargain bin loaded up with pocket-sized bottles of the once prized item - hand sanitiser.
The bottles are stacked high in the bin and being sold off for 25 cents per bottle - the equivalent of 17 pence.
The bargain bin says 'Clearance' in a sign on the front - alluding to the fact the supermarket chain has struggled to shift the sanitiser.
Comments underneath the post suggest this isn't a one-off as people have shared similar stories.
One Reddit user, who claimed to work at Walmart, said: "We still have two full pallets of different hand sanitisers up in the backroom steel.
"We pull it down like, once a f***ing month to refill the side counters and features we have. No one is buying the s*** anymore. Hopefully when school starts back in the fall the s*** gets gone."
Another said they'd recently gone into a petrol station and been offered a free bottle of sanitiser.
They wrote: "As I was checking out the clerk asks if I want free hand sanitizer. I said 'Sure, why not'.
"He pulls a 32oz bottle from behind the counter and hands it to me."
