I am hesitant to venture a guess. It reminds me of the people (mostly men) who argue married couples should only get one vote. Er, guys? Each person in a couple is a person.

I think the thing lots of people are missing is that this is unlikely to have originated from anyone at a level high enough to care about PR. I don’t know the Best Buy employee structure, but at most I bet it was someone on the level of assistant manager thinking, “this will be convenient for both my workers and the…

I’m sitting over here thinking, does this guy not realize that his wife and children are people?

Or we could just force them to watch a Texans game.

Store staff. In the times where I lived through a hurricane, stores enforced a limit per person. Sure you will get the person who goes store to store and buys lots of stock to resell. Or the people who bring their entire family to each buy the limit. But those (in my anecdotal cases) were nearly always the exception.

Before I was born, there was a tornado that caused a lot of damage and knocked out the power for most of the town for a bit. My dad was friends with a guy who had a gas station. The gas station used to have a big name on it like Exxon or Texaco or something. With the power out, you couldn’t pump gas. So the guy…

I have a wife, I have two children. What stops us from walking in and individually buying 5 cans? That’s 20 total. We just gamed the system. Are we wrong? Didn’t we follow the rules?

Its pretty obvious what happened. People were buying lots of water. Best Buy does not sell water in bulk, so the employees just left the water in their shipment packaging and sold the water for the same price (I assume the local manager was not authorized to issue bulk discounts?), indifferent to how the internet…