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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