That and also an efficient way to redistribute scarce products since fixed prices would cause real scarcity for that product, which would mean people who really need couldn't get it even if they could pay more.
The woman in front of me at Costco this morning bought $998 worth of children’s forehead thermometers. I hope she’s donating them, because if she’s pulling a Dwight Schrute/Princess Unicorn move then that’s... morally questionable, at best
Cause the media has been very shit at explaining what is happening and people are assumming we will be quarantined similar to china.
Retards, get a bottle of tylenol and some gatorade and if you get it then stay home and recover youll be alright unless youre literally 90 or on the brink of emphysema and smoking 2 packs a day.
Price is not only not morally questionable, it’s the only moral way to distribute resources in time of crisis. I spent 4 years and over 200k to learn this.
Californians dont understand the difference between suburbs and urban cities and coped so hard that they believe their suburbs of 200k mouthbreathers will have the same problems as a major city of 4 million mouthbreathers when in reality you just need to get a gun to defend yourself from looters because everything will still function except with more coughing.
Hell San Francisco doesn't even have a million fucktards living in it. The US is the worlds breadbasket and California is a major contributer to that.
To a certain extent this is a stupid "Prisoner's Dilemma" where:
A small but unknown number of hysterical preppers/news junkies hoard anticipating terrible disaster
A larger number of less worried people hoard anticipating the above hysterics will disrupt commerce.
A huge number of even less worried people hoard anticipating the hoarding of both groups above and their own group might disrupt their ability to get groceries predictably later in the week.
Most of the people at that Costco's main concern is probably not corona virus, but other people hoarding in this stupid game theory situation.
Most of the people at that Costco's main concern is probably not corona virus, but other people (who are also not concerned about corona virus) hoarding. The thinking is something like:
A small but unknown number of hysterical preppers/news junkies hoard anticipating terrible disaster
A huge number of less worried people hoard anticipating the above group and their own group, in a prisoner's dilemma way, might disrupt their ability to get groceries predictably later in the week.
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1 SnapshillBot 2020-03-01
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1 EasySchmitty 2020-03-01
IM GONNA BOOGALOOOOOOOM!
1 aduketsavar 2020-03-01
I hope the sellers surge the prices up. Price gouging is unironically a good thing.
1 IHeartCommyMommy 2020-03-01
Pride gouging is nothing more than a price signal to producers to increase production, cmv.
1 aduketsavar 2020-03-01
That and also an efficient way to redistribute scarce products since fixed prices would cause real scarcity for that product, which would mean people who really need couldn't get it even if they could pay more.
1 saint2e 2020-03-01
Panic! At the Costco.
1 CCAlkie 2020-03-01
This is Costco for the fallen ones
1 ShitTornadoToOz 2020-03-01
Allah smiles upon us brothers. The sins and depravity of the west coast are finally being cleansed. Inshallah.
1 WhatIsPhilosophy 2020-03-01
Why is this suddenly happening tho?
Also:
....
1 Fisherman_Gabe 2020-03-01
Prolly because the bat plague claimed the life of an US citizen for the first time today. Burgers panicking as a result.
1 Spysix 2020-03-01
We deserve this plague.
1 zuoga 2020-03-01
Price gauging is a good thing if the main supplier did not set up 1-per-person limits.
The alternative is shortages.
1 MiltonFriedmanisbae1 2020-03-01
Cause the media has been very shit at explaining what is happening and people are assumming we will be quarantined similar to china.
Retards, get a bottle of tylenol and some gatorade and if you get it then stay home and recover youll be alright unless youre literally 90 or on the brink of emphysema and smoking 2 packs a day.
1 ironicshitpostr 2020-03-01
Do we really want to avoid fixing pensions, social security and vagrancy
1 closedshop 2020-03-01
Price is not only not morally questionable, it’s the only moral way to distribute resources in time of crisis. I spent 4 years and over 200k to learn this.
1 FUCKYOURITALIN 2020-03-01
why tf are people stocking up on water
like nigga just fill some bottles from the tap
1 theworstever 2020-03-01
Californians dont understand the difference between suburbs and urban cities and coped so hard that they believe their suburbs of 200k mouthbreathers will have the same problems as a major city of 4 million mouthbreathers when in reality you just need to get a gun to defend yourself from looters because everything will still function except with more coughing.
Hell San Francisco doesn't even have a million fucktards living in it. The US is the worlds breadbasket and California is a major contributer to that.
1 Infidel6 2020-03-01
The amount of people who don't give a fuck about the annual flu shot is off the wall.
But then the meme virus hits and the stock market dips and people start buying a 6 month supply of toilet paper and shit.
1 Big_musk 2020-03-01
Flu shots are a legit meme to be fair.
1 theworstever 2020-03-01
I got a flu shot so I could dip out of work for an hour and steal food from the micro-kitchen and fuck around instead.
1 CitrusDelicious 2020-03-01
To a certain extent this is a stupid "Prisoner's Dilemma" where:
Most of the people at that Costco's main concern is probably not corona virus, but other people hoarding in this stupid game theory situation.
1 texanapocalypse33 2020-03-01
Shit someone buy me some Costco stocks. Fentanyl Americans are good at time thing and that's being predictable
1 CitrusDelicious 2020-03-01
Most of the people at that Costco's main concern is probably not corona virus, but other people (who are also not concerned about corona virus) hoarding. The thinking is something like:
1 Ferocetis 2020-03-01
They bough all flour. Except the healthy ones.
1 SirCuljurk 2020-03-01
Lmao at retards who dont just go to a regular grocery store within an hour of opening/closing and avoid the crowds.
1 furryjihad 2020-03-01
>caring about a pandemic
Burgers really are dumb
1 aaronbelesbian3 2020-03-01
Why don’t people who get the coronavirus just breathe? 😒😒😒