The Lovely Harvey reports that the civilized restraint I was seeing yesterday at the stores has evaporated and the panicking herd has decided to buy anything still there.
We're a day behind Alachuastan in cleaning out the stores. Opposite timing from hurricane panics, those usually run south to north.
I'm half tempted to see if the gun shops have been slammed as well.
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Depending on when the check comes in, I'll be shopping on Wednesday or Thursday. I firmly believe the shelves will be stocked back up.
ReplyDeleteI said it somewhere else, I'll say it here.
I think a good part of the panic is that people who normally only buy prepared foods, from fast food joints all the way up to sit-down restaurants, are freaking out and buying food to prepare.
Stores only stock to the levels that are normally sold. So say a group of people is made up of X=people who cook, Y=people who cook and buy prepared, Z=people who mostly buy prepared. Store stocks for X + Y at a normal time.
Now take that total population of X + Y +(Y amount of food normally bought prepared) + Z - the few who just can't even make cold cereal and throw them at a store supply set up to handle X + Y and you get... shortages. Temporary shortages.
The operative word there is... Temporary.
Just like during a holiday, when a store set up for some additional traffic gets mobbed. Slim pickings at 8pm on Christmas Eve, store fully stocked on Boxing Day.
Not to mention all the dumbassery being drummed up by the media. Can't forget their part in this kerfuffle.
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