I hope they were ordering by the multi Costco Sized warehouses full of parts since we may needs it. Plus its better to have it & dont need it, than to need it and cant ever get any forever! We are literally looking at a "End of the World" scenario if FatBoy gets his way and it would be the biggest irony of history: The Biggest Economy & Military of the World gets taken down by a 4th rate country that cant even provide food for its citizens much less electricity, via a EMP BOMB.
As I told DO in FReepmail; I still prep when I can.
I still rotate my stock so it’s reasonably-fresh. Used to have a lot of canned pasta when it was cheap (68 cents a can). I like the small cans because you use less; though I found some big cans of beans marked-down at WM. They let me have add’l cans at that price when restocked. I offered to return them immediately to 2 different managers who I informed of their probably price error. They told me not to worry about it. I pointed out another pricing error in the dog food aisle, too.
I probably will never stop prepping, regardless. It’s a habit now.