He Has 17,700 Bottles of Hand Sanitizer and Nowhere
to Sell Them
“Sites like Amazon and eBay have given rise to a
growing industry of independent sellers who snatch up discounted or
hard-to-find items in stores to post online and sell around the world.
These sellers call it retail arbitrage, a 21st-century
career that has adults buying up everything from limited-run cereals to Fingerling
Monkeys, a once hot toy. The bargain hunters look for anything they can sell at
a sharp markup. In recent weeks, they found perhaps their biggest opportunity:
a pandemic.”