People are evil.
But they are also stupid.
Believe, I doubt many companies are stock piling anything. The incentives for decades were pushing the opposite. When I can’t get cardboard, period, it isn’t because the supplier is hoarding it. It is because he can’t get the raw materials.
Same with paint, steel, chips, anything else. The projections I am seeing internally are not pretty. As in “Buy food now” ugly.
For employment, a large portion of the “workforce” are not going to work until they run out of money. After two years off, many will never work again. For those that are going to work, they can make good money but the tax increases coming with inflation will make that less and less attractive.
Fixed it.
The food not in stores appears to be going to supply areas called ‘food deserts’.
Go to your local food pantry to get yer milk.
We have 78,168 folks living in Hancock County Indiana.
It has 8 food pantries.