RE:My crystal ball Your crystal ball is telling us that the goverments silence means they approve and don't care either way. Why would they object?
As far as sales go most people are too lazy to walk to a store these days anyway or just don't have the time after slaving away at work all day, driving perhaps 1 hour to 30 minutes to work then home again, make food or order out, look after the kiddies, so on.... Online will be the main source for buying, I suspect that down the road some stores that open will close anyways due to online sales. I mean look at the landscape today a lot of retailers have closed down due to online sales.
I don't think shortages are going to affect anything but the bottom reveue line. When the next batch is ready people will just buy again. We have had gas shortages, people still buy gas, lol.
You have to polish that crystal ball more often Lou.