I was going to suggest that this was a remarkably inefficient and crude way to do food rationing.
how you buy food in Venezuela. WIth club stamps. Anyone who's been in too soon gets turned away hungry or not pic.twitter.com/WNDqSb9Dm2
— Bill O'Keefe (@DefendWallSt) March 7, 2014
…And then I realized that I actually have no idea whether it is, or not. I live in a capitalist democratic republic; we don’t have food rationing.
Via @FriedrichHayek.