Re:Ask HN: People are panic buying. What to do?
by mygo on Monday March 23, 2020 @03:38AM
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This assumes that people have infinite money, infinite demand, infinite space, and infinite time.
But there are diminishing marginal returns.
Check your local retailers today and see if they’re still sold out of toilet paper.
Supply chains are intact but they can't deal with this level of demand immediately and so there's going to be a period in which there are shortages. How long those shortages last depend not only demand but on other factors, e.g. how many people in the supply chain are directly or indirectly affected by the virus.