View From The Porch: The ammo shortage explained...

Wednesday, June 03, 2009

...with beer!

Chance said...: Well, I don't drink beer, but I have started stocking up on ammo. People don't really horde beer, since it goes bad, but plenty of people are hording ammo, and trying to resell it for ridiculous amounts.; 12:10 AM, June 04, 2009
Rabbit said...: I've got some tulip bulbs I can let ya have, though...

Rabbit.; 12:37 AM, June 04, 2009
Overload in Colorado said...: This is game theory; something close to my heart, and my industry, twice over (retail non-electronic games). Still, even within this industry, this happens to us on a regular basis, for the reasons stated. We also have a lot of people in the industry who like to gamble in Las Vegas, which also makes no sense.; 3:27 AM, June 04, 2009
Noah D said...: "Once you get outside of Wal-Mart, and maybe Cabela's, it's a fragmented sector of small retail gun shops, with little to no IT infrastructure and working through at least one level of distribution, along with a smattering of specialist online vendors."

What makes this interesting is that (again, only from what I've seen), Wal-Mart is in worse shape than the 'fragmented sector'.; 7:23 AM, June 04, 2009
Tam said...: Thing is, while your local WalMart has a great IT infrastructure, they really don't stock all that much ammo. But everyone thinks they do, and so they're shocked when WalMart runs out.; 7:30 AM, June 04, 2009