Meh..I don’t fear elections, I fear the results.
In case of an election night Doomsday, preppers are running up sales of emergency survival food.
While sales for “long term food” typically see an increase around natural disasters and elections, “this is more intense than what we saw in 2012,” said Keith Bansemer, VP of marketing for My Patriot Supply, a manufacturer and seller of survival food. During the previous election his company saw sales double. This time it’s triple.
“We have everyone we can on the phones,” he said. “We are overwhelmed.”
To be honest, I know far, far more people stockpiling guns, mags, and ammo in advance of this election than I do people stocking food against it.
Panic buying and preparedness are opposites. The article sounds more like marketing to the nervous Nellies of the world.
Well, having extra food on hand is never a bad thing. I wonder, though, if they’ve made accommodation for the water necessary to rehydrate all that freeze dried and dehydrated stuff, not to mention just drinking water.
Interestingly, though, Woot had a sale running all week on Mountan House with very good prices and after 5 days they still hadn’t sold out.