re: Price gouging laws predictably lead to shortages

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Business owners do not have a crystal ball to tell them if their supply will be reduced in the future or if already reduced when it will return to normal,

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I have been in distribution for forever, if these folks in disaster prone areas have not secured the needed supplies to run their businesses do we really want to reward them for their incompetence.

My best customers across my entire customer base never have issues, they pay attention, they negotiate early, they pay on time or early, and they are prepared for storms and other disasters.

If you are talking about a storefront that is having to be abandoned because of evacuations or reduced population centers, I dont think one time corrections on 1x inventory are going to make a hill of beans difference. The hay is long ago in the barn.