During the initial lockdowns, I strolled into a Beauty Supply storefront at the mall, and innocently asked for some Barbicide. That's the commercial-grade sanit

During the initial lockdowns, I strolled into a Beauty Supply storefront at the mall, and innocently asked for some Barbicide. That's the commercial-grade sanitizer that's blue; barbers drop combs into a branded glass bottle. The first one or two times they said "gee, sorry, no" and explained the supply chain problems and they haven't seen a shipment in a long time. After that it became sort of a comedy where I would hardly expect them to stock it anymore for ordinary mortals. I meticulously priced out beard trimmers and hair clippers for personal use. However, the barbers still seemed to sanitize OK. (I did have to switch to one that would trim my beard and not force me to keep a mask on during the service.) On a related note, even during the egg crisis, I've inadvertently ordered food featuring eggs at restaurants and I was not noticeably overcharged. It all just goes to show you the disparity in the commercial vs. personal supply chains. It was explained to me that commercial food service has extremely different requirements in terms of packaging, volume, pre-preparations, shipping, processing and ingredients, and during the lockdowns, the world feebly attempted a massive shift in those supply chains, and that's partly why they had problems, because they are not interchangeable.