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The problem, from what I saw, is hoarders having stock piled 17,000 hand sanitizers and the like, not official stores selling them for too high a price.
by AsyncAwait 7y ago
The problem, from what I saw, is hoarders having stock piled 17,000 hand sanitizers and the like, not official stores selling them for too high a price.
- maxerickson 7y agoIn a country of 300 million people, a few semi trucks worth of hoarding isn't doing much of anything to availability of any particular product. It's the just-in-time nature of distribution. Demand doubles from "normal" and all of the sudden nothing is sitting on the shelf.
- AsyncAwait 7y agoWhich would be the case even without a sales tax? However, while no sales tax on hand sanitizers is hardly going to be of a measurable impact for an individual, when you're hoarding to squeeze people in crisis, no sales tax makes for a nice 'bulk discount'.