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They could garner good will by setting aside a % of their stock to sell to red-blooded people at a lower price..
If someone walks into a grocery store before a storm and wants to buy 10 pallets of water, the store tells them to fuck off.
That's 1 day. Guaranteed if someone walked in and said "I want to buy all the water you can sell for the next 9 months", they'd be singing a very different tune.
That's because they're guaranteed to sell all the water when there's a storm anyway. There's a reason there's laws against raising prices in an emergency.
I consider not having access to reasonably-priced hardware an emergency ;(
Then scalpers would buy them and jack the price up.