what goods could one buy?....maybe nothing....
I mean I want to store cash but right now I'm just buying up on canned meats and veggies etc...
“perhaps there will be nothing to buy with our cash...I mean I want to store cash but right now I’m just buying up on canned meats and veggies etc...”
I don’t consider myself an expert here, but usually markets develop, regardless of the collapse, with the exception being when a political entity (like a militia or army or police) intentionally prevents supplies from getting in. So, I think there will be stuff around, if you have money, or, in some cases, something to barter with.
As to building up an inventory - I’ve done 4 years worth of everything I can think of, other than food, water, and gasoline (although I do keep a decent amount of food, and have ways to retrieve, store, and purify rain water, and have plenty of gasoline, assuming that I won’t be driving every day). What I think is more likely than a total societal collapse is a crashing of the dollar - which makes everything go up in price several times (i.e., the Chinese pull the plug on us). When that happens the public will demand that government “do something” - and about all they can do at that point is price controls - which guarantee shortages - which is why I have such a healthy inventory. It’s more for comfort (i.e., not having to stand in lines for hours to buy paper towels, for exampe), rather than trying to go it alone in society where people are reduced to wild dogs (if we get there...yipe!).