Well, I'm not too sure what's happening, as I stopped listening to the news

You guys don't have canned milk

Imagine not having introduced a law to prevent price gouging in times of crisis.

price gouging makes sense, and it takes 2 brain cells to make sure you are never a victim of it

Someone raised the price of something eightfold, bam, fines.

"oh shit, a highly infectious virus is slowly breaking its way out of the original country, maybe i should grab that extra bad of rice"

*bag

> it takes 2 brain cells to make sure you are never a victim of it

how can braincells prevent retailers from increasing prices on essentials?

or do I just NOT buy hand sanitiser?

i dont see a problem with them raising the price of something to suit demand, you're just telling them to run their business improperly.

no, I'm telling them to quit being fucking jews about it, is all

you're telling them to run a business, in a manor that is inefficient

yes, people will have to pay more, but thats because the whole country didnt think and suddenly needs everything nonperishable all at once

if not screwing your customers is inefficient, then I am OK with inefficiency

if it were screwing them on price that badly, they wouldnt pay it, there are several other stores that they could go to that arent raising prices out of desire for moral virtue.

usually the smaller ones

lol

of course the large chains will, it makes literally 0 sense not to and i dont see a problem with it

I can live off cereal

I haven't made my mind up about price gouging yet either

It’s either taking advantage of worried people or a legit buisness practice

Is there a different rule for essential goods?

I'd consider a price gouging law on essential goods but nothing else

both, cassia

there exists price gouging laws in america

probably here too

but we don't have an official state of emergency

i have to venture out for supplies at some point, might try and get up early tomorrow

Even price gouging laws can be detramental to the market, like what if they need to increase the price just to keep supply moving

Tesco fucked me up with their undisclosed opening time change

is it for the elderly?

No, it's for Tesco

oh

what did they do?

Close early to restock shelves

But in doing so removes 2 nicely quiet hours where vulnerable people can go shopping

eh, in times like these it might make sense for them to do restocking when no one is in there

i imagine people would yeet pallets of shit that is in high demand

doesn't help me much

yeeeee, individuals when you're dealing with something like that are not the concern

from a business point of view, everyone is grouped as "the customer"