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Originally Posted by kendi
Or maybe they were being responsible by stocking up so they could stay home as was highly recommended. That’s a far cry from being irresponsible and greedy.
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No, some of them were being irresponsible and greedy. That is WHY the stores started imposing limits. You didn't watch the video of a couple buying ALL the toilet paper in one of the Dollar Stores, so they could sell them on e-bay and make a profit? They bought the entire store's supply, leaving nothing for anyone else. Loaded up their pickup truck full.
Then one guy who bought out the supplies of hand sanitizers in several stores around three different states for the same purpose - though he was banned from the platform he was using to resell them, if I recall correctly.
In the Villages it was on a smaller scale but it was still happening. People were buying 4 or 5 24-packs of toilet paper, 5-8 loaves of bread, 5 packs of 100-each napkins - more than they would need for an entire year of many things, and enough of other things to last 5-6 months. The canned soup shelves were completely empty within hours of being stocked, so were canned vegetables.
It wasn't "preparing." It was hoarding.