Why arnt there runs on shops in the USA right now? During covid we saw insane behaviour on buying t

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Why arnt there runs on shops in the USA right now?

During covid we saw insane behaviour on buying toilet paper on fear it would run out (which ironically made the fear come true) - tariffs are real, I'm in the consumer goods space and I know for a fact major retailers have paused shipments for weeks now and huge amounts of stock is sitting in limbo or just canceled. Big retailers are lucky to hit double didget margins and the brand owners are on maybe 20-50% gross so even cutting all budgets and everyone going to 0% profit wont stop insane price hikes at retail. 

Why are consumers not running out now and buying BBQs, Toys, charging cables and all those other items that are not worth re-shoring? We have between 2 and 4 months before some parts of the store are bare due to shipments that are supposed to have left are paused - id have expected shoppers to stock up. 

Are you seeing any stockpiling? if not... why?

 

https://www.reddit.com/r/smallbusiness/s/X1kK36PXb1

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