Salty

My town has a little Facebook page for townies to discuss local news, events, what have you. Today there was an interesting discussion on there.

We’re due for a major snowstorm. Someone posted a complaint that a local shop “ripped him off” by charging him a lot for a bag of salt. They shouldn’t be that much, you see. Price gouging and whatnot.

The interesting part of the discussion was the many comments, all of which were variations on one of two observations: One kind of comment was echoing the man’s experience, saying they had also gone into such and such a store and been “ripped off” at a similar price point. The other half of the comments were all saying where the bags of salt were only their normal, un-inflated price, but with the caveat that “they were completely sold out.” (One person even commented that he had personally bought 20 bags at one of the normal-priced stores.)

It’s as if all these things are related somehow…