"gouging laws" are one of the dumbest thing that somehow has been allowed to persist.
There is lots to say about it, but anyone who lives in hurricane prone areas has probably lived thru the effects of these laws.
Imagine you are a walmart dispatcher. You have regional warehouses that are stocked with goods, and you have 35 stores that have just been hit by a hurricane and everything is sold out....sounds easy right? Flood those stores goods....well not so fast. They are running on generator, staff are not all available, the roads are a mess, its going to take your trucks 3x as long to get to the stores....so well raise prices right?
You can't. Therefore there is ZERO incentive for you to "hurry up and rush products" back to the store.
"gouging laws" are one of the dumbest thing that somehow has been allowed to persist.
There is lots to say about it, but anyone who lives in hurricane prone areas has probably lived thru the effects of these laws.
Imagine you are a walmart dispatcher. You have regional warehouses that are stocked with goods, and you have 35 stores that have just been hit by a hurricane and everything is sold out....sounds easy right? Flood those stores goods....well not so fast. They are running on generator, staff are not all available, the roads are a mess, its going to take your trucks 3x as long to get to the stores....so well raise prices right?
You can't. Therefore there is ZERO incentive for you to "hurry up and rush products" back to the store.