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I don’t mind people selling stuff at high prices if it is in demand. I do mind front-running the population by buying uhaul-sized piles of supplies. I blame t
by someguydave 7y ago
I don’t mind people selling stuff at high prices if it is in demand. I do mind front-running the population by buying uhaul-sized piles of supplies. I blame the stores he bought from - they should have refused to sell obviously in-demand items to one person in that quantity.
- jmull 7y agoStores don't have any mechanism to stop people from buying things. Not to mention, a buyer can just do something like claim to be getting these for the ER 30 miles down the road. So what's a good store to do then?
- etrautmann 7y agoMany stores will put in place per customer limits for critical (or likely to sell out) items. It's not unreasonable to say 2 bottles of sanitizer max per customer...
- jmull 7y agoOk, I should have said they have only low-efficiency, purely reactive high-latency mechanisms to prevent people from buying things. A store needs to experience a run on merchandise and also (through some other information channel) come to understand that this is actually a bad enough thing to override their normal business imperatives to sell the stuff they have. Blaming stores for sales they make today makes some sense. Blaming stores for sales they made last week does not.
- someguydave 7y agoThe stores should be allowed to raise prices in the face of increased demand, but the average voter thinks that is some form of theft. So stores can only implement quantity limits.
- rmetzler 7y agoThe videos I see on Reddit about stores allowing a maximum quantity of toilet paper show that it’s possible to stop customers of buying all the things. And in case someone claims an emergency, it’s not hard to verify such a claim.