Originally Posted by toad
Originally Posted by Cariboujack
Socialists call it price gouging, Capitalists call it supply and demand.


call it what you will, that's just semantics, but instead of going to the local mom&pop first like i always did, i just go online and make no effort to 'buy local' at that place. another example of capitalism at work...


LMAO at your righteous indignation. I hope you need something at the last minute from that Mom & Pop, and you find it closed. Merchants need to make profits and keep making them. If they recognize that there won't be any stock to sell for a prolonged period, they must get what the market bears and salt it away to keep the doors open.


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