If more people voted intelligently with their purchases, many of our problems in the marketplace wouldn't exist. While only a few of us here remember what happened during the the gas "crisis" in 1973, it was the perfect market driven scenario. With the "shortage", many of the gas stations raised their prices more than the market would bear. Within 6 months of the return more normal flow of gas, all of those stations had been boycotted by the consumers and were out of business. On commodity type purchases, buying places that consider customers rather than just picking the next store to make the purchase helps to weed out those who will be more customer friendly in a crisis.Ericstac wrote: Of course, as a consumer we have the right to buy wherever we please which most of us choose to buy from walmart and academy when it's in stock.
I guess I don't have as much problem with the $29.95 price as I do empty shelves right now. I did a good job of stocking up on the larger calibers but got caught short on .22LR. I never expected the supply of it to dry up the way that it has. While $30 for a brick is double what I paid before, I would eagerly pick up a couple so that I was more comfortable shooting it more often.