Part 2 on food rationing in the U.S.A.?

Question

Sam's Club put out a statement that said, "at this time we are not limiting the sales of flour and oil."

How would you think/feel/react, if Sam's Club, and possible Costco started to ration the amount of flour and cooking oils you were able to purchase?

For those who missed the first question, Sam's Club is rationing the sales of bags of rice. You can only purchase four bags per trip to the store. Costco is concidering doing the same thing. This is NOT due to a sale. This is because of supply and demand, and the fact that customers are coming in and purchasing rice by the pallet load.

Answer 1

The proper solution is to simply raise the price until supply meets demand.  That is how every other commodity is priced in the USA.

Answer 2

Although it doesn't stop hoarding, I'm glad some stores at least try to stop or slow some people from buying up all there is of a product, and leaving little or none for others (in times of shortage).

Just as when we (here in FL) had gasoline shortages after the hurricanes a couple of years ago, stations started putting $ limits on how much one could buy at a time...otherwise people were coming with trucks full of gas cans and spending 30 minutes getting as much gas as they could, and stations would run out of gas before many could get to the pump to just gas up their car.

Greed is ugly.

Answer 3

Keep pushing Global Warming and it will get worse.

Answer 4

Individual retailers can conduct their business however they like.  I might not like their business judgements, but they are free to limit sales of items to anyone.

Rationing such items from retailers only makes people who (for whatever reason) buy so much of it go somewhere else.  

They can do what they like.  Now if you want to GOVERNMENT to step in and tell me how much of something I can buy, I'll jump all over you.

Answer 5

I feel like it is a sign of the times...

Really hard times in the ol' U.S. of A. are nearly here, I feel it in my bones.

In responce I am enlarging my garden area...

It is time for those of us who have gardens to step up production.

We will never regret being prepared for hard times, we will only regret not preparing when hard times really hit.

Be sure and plant stock that breeds true, and remember: save your seed.

Answer 6

in fact not.usa have large field can make enough food.

Answer 7

They are only allowing your to purchase 4 20 pound bags...which is waaayyy too much rice for any consumer to even start worrying.

You can go to the grocery store and buy as much rice as you want.

It's hardly food rationing.

Answer 8

All these responses and nobody wants to think deeper as to WHY this pre-emptive measure has been taken.  Garnet, they missed your point.  

Lemmings.

Answer 9

Those 4 bags are 20 pound bags.  That's 80 pounds or what the average American family consumes in 5 - 10 years.

These companies know how to market products to make the most profit.  They know if they limit supplies they will increase demand and increase price for their maximum profit.

America is never going to run out of rice.  I have a better chance of winning the Tour de France.

Answer 10

I really don't care if a private seller chooses to impose limits because if those limits are unreasonable I can take my business to their competitors.  As long as the government stays out of it there's no problem.