Source: BOSTON GLOBE, 7/5/21


From stores to schools to restaurants, hand sanitizer dispensers have become a fixture of our lives amid the COVID-19 pandemic. At first, the product was hard to come by. A national shortage in March 2020 caused it to disappear from shelves and forced stores to limit the amount customers could buy. The demand was so great that numerous local distilleries became temporary producers. All told, hand sanitizer sales boomed more than 620 percent in 2020, totaling about $1.45 billion, according to NielsenIQ.

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