Posted on 09/28/2021 2:31:57 PM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal
I have not been able to get pseudophedrine for months now at the QFC/Kroger pharmacy. Last time I bought some at Rite Aid, they only had two boxes.
Yeah—the weirdness was what we saw in the Carter years—seemingly no rhyme or reason—and the retailer would be just as confused as everybody else.
The trick is that there will be overstocks of some items because of the craziness—and that is the time to grab more than you need if they are durable—because six months later they may be unavailable.
I’m in the process of renovating one of my apartment complexes.
Try fining a good seller toon of blue electrical boxes. Or switches. Or 14/2 wire. Or many plumbing materials.
I go in a couple times a week to see what they have and stock up. There is a shortage of all types of things.
It isn’t a scam. If there was money to be made by supplying the demand someone would do it. Capitalism works. It works until the government gums up the works. When government pays people more to stay at home than they can get at work the people don’t go to work. If people don’t go to work the work doesn’t get done, or the owners of companies start competing with the government by offering higher wages which cause the prices to go up. As long as people need what the higher prices can give them it works, eventually the government pay is lower than business and we all pay more for everything, it is called inflation and is mostly brought about by government printing money.
The government can pay whatever it wants because they have an endless supply of money that they print as needed. People on fixed incomes, old people, retired people pay the price. They can’t get a raise, their savings keep getting devalued to the point where the old people have to depend on the government for handouts just like the millions of illegal immigrants, just like the people unwilling to work. This is all by design, it is designed to make everyone glad to have welfare, but it is really socialism.
Welcome to reality, the left is winning.
Nothing about the real cause
I continue to work one job but left my other job for personal reasons like moving to a new location.
I keep one job which puts me around pharmacists and the vaccine.
They got plenty of Pfizer for you so to speak.
No vaccine mandate yet in my line of work with my employer but if that happens I’m out the door.
I won’t be working.
Not because I’m lazy but because of my convictions about vaccine coercion.
I have no objection to the vaccine but no one should be forced.
I can also manage financially for the moment but again the more the vax is pushed perhaps some will choose not to work out of their convictions like I will.
I just don’t understand why people put abbreviations for words like back order when your phone will give you the whole word if you type the first two letters. You would just have to type b or and there it is.
I cannot get my guy to come and cut my lawn. He says nobody wants to work.
“many economic optimists assured us that the U.S. economy would be “booming” by this point”
They’re not economic optimists. They’re leftists. They are “optimistic” every time a Democrat gets elected, and doomsayers every time a Republican gets elected, and they are usually wrong on both counts.
I’ve noticed that stocks of goods are erratic.
There are more bare spots on shelves than I’m used to seeing and there appears to be no rhyme or reason to it.
I am in sales for a northeast c-store distributor. Just because you don’t see the concrete reason for the shortages in the article, they do exist. Every week we get a report that is called “covid shortages”. Out of stocks, allocation, transportation issues, labor shortages, raw material shortages. Just some examples. It is going to get worse in the next 6 months. A LOT OF PEOPLE DON’T WANT TO WORK, from taking stuff out of the ground, to harvesting, to transporting, to manufacturing, to again transporting to distrbutors, to warehoue order pickers, to delivering to retail outlets.
I tell people I know, if you have a favorite box of cookies or planning to buy a big screen tv (an example), buy it now ‘cuz it may not be there next week.
I’d also point out that a story from Maine may be representative of a lot of areas, but Maine has been a real outlier in a lot of respects for decades. Between the cold weather and the sparse population across most of the state, it’s not the kind of place everyone wants to live ... so there’s been a general stagnation in the population there for as long as I can remember.
The supply of gatorade and other beverages (booze)at the golf course yesterday was limited due to supply chain issues.
“I just don’t understand why people put abbreviations for words like back order when your phone will give you the whole word if you type the first two letters. You would just have to type b or and there it is.”
First world problems.
I even noticed empty shelves in my local dollar store when I used to have to walk around the shelf stockers all the time. I don't have cats but I feed 3 semi wild cats. Suddenly the food I buy for them is not available. I finally checked at Tractor Supply and had to buy a 20 lb bag.
Thanks for posting this.
Have not seen the shortages here...yet. Just keep hearing about it.
My vendors for my tiny $700K sales a year pizza restaurant are constantly out of basics. Paper, food, etc. I can get plenty of Italian sausage but not regular pork sausage. Two weeks ago they were out of pepperoni.
Cost have risen for everything.
how many of our ports does chyna own? also both ends of the panama canal?
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