Sharon Brett-Kelley

And so we've got all kinds of types.

We're going to go for a little walk through the store, but how many plumbing products in here, and you've got probably thousands.

would be made up of petroleum?

And there's no alternative?

Well, there's the metal alternative.

They're much more expensive, are they?

Yeah, they've got petroleum in them, haven't they?

So you buy directly from the manufacturers?

What are the manufacturers telling you?

Yeah, exactly.

I'm seeing some empty boxes here.

Are you reducing your inventory?

A customer's stockpiling?

But can you stop people from stockpiling?

Those fixed price jobs, can they cancel the contract?

What do you do when you're trying to plan ahead and figure out the cost to business and all of that kind of thing, and you've got this huge uncertainty going on?

I mean, today we hear Trump is threatening to take control of the Strait of Hormuz.

Just day after day, we don't know what's going to happen next.

How does that impact your job?

Also feeling the pressure is the New Zealand-owned family company Allproof, which makes all kinds of drainage products.