Price gouging in Florida

[*Nately120*]

(10-07-2016, 06:46 PM)TheLeonardLeap Wrote: Obviously $31 for a $4 case of water is ridiculous, but there is supply and demand. If they kept it at the normal price, some A-Hole will buy it all, the store will be sold out, and that A-Hole will be selling cases of bottled water out the back of his truck for $10-20.

So I don't mind if stores raise prices a little in the case of a hurricane or something. Afterall, supply lines might be strained or blocked and then the stores have anything to sell.

So yeah, guess I am okay with price raises prior to disasters, but within reason. $4 case of water for $8? Sure. But $31? That's not okay.

That's pretty much the "consumer's fault" side of the coin.  If the apocalypse is coming and you keep cans of corn the same price they are when the world isn't ending, one guy buys all the corn and then you're all like "Woah, save some for everyone else" and he's all either like "No way, I'm going to eat all of this myself!" or "I'll sell it to them instead of you!"

People ruin everything.  The movie The Night of the Living Dead was all about people's insatiable need to fight each other, declare themselves the "leader" greedily snatch up resources, and wreck everything as soon as a panic hits...and you though the ZOMBIES were the monsters!  Tsk tsk.