I'm retired USPS and -like many of my former coworkers- a longterm prepper. But I don't know any who today must rush out and grab everything they can find in a mad dash. Instead we all bought one or two extra cans a week in small affordable increments. And, EVERY YEAR we bust our asses during our annual food drives to supply thousands of tonnes of food to the needy. We even compete with one another when doing it, we are that proud of our customers. BTW: it's ALWAYS the poorer neighborhoods that give the most in those drives because they understand what it is to be hungry. The affluent neighborhoods -who use the pool cleaners you mentioned- just get a couple of corporate sponsors to pony up a pallet or two to give their companies bragging rights... and a tax writeoff.

And don't try to tell me that a single can of Tuna is outside anybody's grasp if they followed that simple common-sense approach of incremental purchasing. It'd also help the unaware if they didn't waste what little cash they have on Little Debbies, Doritos or gallons of soda which their bodies do not need.

Do you NOT remember the Aesop fable about the "Ant and the Grasshopper"? If not, better go back and read it again instead of feeling sorry for all those Grasshoppers who are now chirping their despair in unison... because in the animal kingdom they are the first ones who would lose the struggle of the survival of the species. That's commonly called, "Natural Law" and it's the only one that will always exist.