Yeah, it seems to be working great!
Btw, there is no such thing as a true free market. They're very manipulated. Trust me here.☺
Posted on 03/14/2020 6:02:08 PM PDT by dragnet2
In fact if I were Trump, I’d call in all the big box people, Walmart, Costco etc and tell them to tell to immediately develop *temporary* policies where the panicked and greedy can only have two cases of water per person or 3 bottles of hand sanitizer, etc...No more BS where ya see people rolling out with 3 full baskets of tissues, water, sanitizer etc.
I’d put of quick stop to that nonsense.
Trump should just recommend retailers do this, nothing official though.
Also shopping via online and parking lot pickup should be encouraged.
No
That’s what a request means. Thanks Grace!
Let the free market work it out.
Sudafed is not regulated and is a “new” formula.
Sudafed-D is behind the counter and regulated. It has Pseudoephedrine and actually works. (for me)
They did change the formula some time ago because the kind I used to get sent me off to dream land.
The new kind made me jittery so I had to switch to the PE.
No. All that will do is increase the panic buying.
Hoarding? Are you batty? What is supposed to happen? The government find out who has bough large amounts of whatever and then go confiscate it for redistribution?
Hoarding? Might as well call it the anti-prepper law.
Yeah, it seems to be working great!
Btw, there is no such thing as a true free market. They're very manipulated. Trust me here.☺
What consumer resources from the private market could we throw at the government in order to help resolve the pandemic? Maybe masks and gloves and other PPE but I can not think of anything else. What would be the purpose of rationing? Right now short term there is a shortage and that vacuum will suck product into the stores quicker than you will believe. Why? There is a buck to be made. No one needs to tell anyone anything. The market will take care of it. Any interference will create inefficiencies and it will work sub optimally.
It is a simple supply and demand curve. The lemmings rushed in and grabbed all the toilet paper. That emptied the shelves. As we speak warehouses are rushing in product. Factories are working overtime to replenish warehouses.
BTW, the demand for TP is inelastic. You only need so much a day and because the price is high or low you dont use much more or less. Daily demand is pretty fixed. People only have to wipe so many times a day.
The demand for hand sanitizer jumped. That is going to take a little bit longer but not much. Lines are being/have been converted to run it (easy switch over) and they are producing a bazillion gallons of it this very moment and bottling lines are wirring away at thousands produced a minute. That should all shake out in about a week. Everyone will be able to fill a pool with the stuff if they wanted within a couple of weeks.
All the other sold out products? Same sort of thing.
Why? There is a buck to be made. If the government interferes they will screw up the natural process. Supply meets demand quickly.
It’s fine. It makes people feel like they have some control. Face it, purchasing water? Toilet paper? What does either have to do with this flu.
It’s not fine!! When I go to the Grocery Store and have to go to several to get what I need is a burden on me.. I am handicapped and it is harder for people like me.. I go in the store to buy 2 cases of bottle water and it’s all gone then I have to go to another store or come back to this store. The same goes for PT and TP.. You don’t need to buy 10 cases of water or 30 TP packs. I think some people are selling this stuff on craigs list..
Please read the headline. There is a big difference between a request and a mandate.
“How the hell do you know what the effects of rationing during WW2 were?”
The lack of primary sources certainly makes it difficult.
“If they were positive, why were they not continued?”
Honestly I have to just stare at this and wonder about the state of American education.
“The purpose of that was to direct a finite, limited supply of materials in order to defeat our enemies.”
Yes?
And...?
I just loathe the Feds taking more control...
Sales create a market.
If the panic were inmy area I would find or create a supply to meet the demand.
Thats called capitalism.
A concept clearly outside of your thought patterns.
One assumes that you are under the impression that the manufacturing process for toilet paper was lost long ago.
You are wrong, it wasn’t.
I should also point out slotting fees. Anything on a shelf in a grocery store has a slotting fee and they are not cheap at all. An empty shelf makes the manufacturer cry. He is losing potential sales and paid for that shelf space. I worked as a higher up in a company in that business. Huge fires have been lit under a lot of asses to get those shelves full again. If you have seen the movie Z, product is flowing through the system like those zombies and people are working serious overtime. Trucks are waiting at docks. Truckers are forging logs and putting the pedal to the metal to get it there faster. Equipment is running beyond rated speed. People are running on factory floors. Fork trucks are speeding. Mountains are being moved. Mothballed bottling lines were brought online and people are manually adding pumps to bottles of hand sanitizer. Why? There is a buck to be made.
I have seen it where I worked. There is no chitchat. The system is running at the red line. Product will be there.
Suggesting is interference. The market is efficient. Don’t screw with it. There is a buck to be made. Don’t get in the way.
Request? Absolutely. Force? No.
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