Posted on 09/28/2021 2:31:57 PM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal
thank you
I can believe much of this, but the “trucker shortage” is hard to rationalize given the huge number of trucks on the road vs cars.
Unless they are transporting nothing but sailboat fuel, I cannot correlate what my eyes are seeing with the claims of trucker shortages.
I will agree something is seriously amiss in the distribution system and maybe my lying eyes are fooling me.
I do know there is a massive backlog of ships off Long Beach Ca waiting to be offloaded. It looks like a NASCAR parking lot for ships.
This is anecdotal, and not groceries, but I’ve been wanting to buy a particular generator for a while and just haven’t gotten around to buying it. I looked at one a little while ago and the price has gone from $800 to $1300 in one year. From my perspective in went up that amount all at once; I never saw the price going up.
I am a large consumer of auto parts
The shortage isn’t just food.
My suppliers are warning me of coming shortages in many common parts.
I think the used parts business is going to boom soon.
A old junk yard owner told me he makes money in any economy. A strong one scrap metal is worth a lot. A weak economy parts sell well.
His advice holds true today. So much so I am waiting on epa tests on an existing yard to make a offer.
I kind of skimmed through the article and never saw a reason given for WHY this is happening. A shortage of truck drivers? Declines in production because of labor shortages or Covid shutdowns? High fuel prices? Something else?
My wife is a veterinarian. Lifesaving drugs are either on bo or have doubled or more in price. Specialty dog foods for older or special needs dogs are on bo or she gets just a few bags to tie her over
Pharmacies seem normal here.
Also, the grocery store owner (if he even exists) refuses to give his name. So this is a ‘some guy told some other guy’ story.
No disrespect meant to the original poster. And shortages do exist. But this particular post is rather suspect.
There were 73 ships waiting to unload at LA-Long Beach as of September 19th.
I am convinced this is all a scam by the larger companies. Keep employee numbers down lower than normal, less wages and health care and then double or triple the price = huge profits
Bingo. It says nothing concerning the reason for shortages.
One thing I’ve realized in talking to people is that while there are shortages, the chain stores are allocating.
One supermarket in a blue collar/lower income town has lots of empty spaces on shelves. The same store over in the upscale bedroom community lacks nothing.
The guy that runs the company that mows my lawn quit today. He explained that he could not find anyone that wanted a job. He is cutting down his business because no one wants to work.
It looks like there are several factors, but for those who lived through the Carter years it all sounds familiar.
Once major inflation hits, there is a disconnect between the ask price and the bid price—for just about everything—and at each level of the supply chain.
So suppose you are the wholesaler for paper towels. Your primary supplier just asked for a ten percent increase in price. Do you pay for the paper towels or do you wait hoping the price will go down if you are patient?
Everyone makes different decisions—some pay the new high price and some wait.
If the price is paid all the way through the supply chain then the goods are available but expensive.
If the price is not paid at any point in the supply chain there is a shortage of the goods.
That is one factor—of course there are others.
Reads to me this guy is going to have us economically collapsed come H, or Highwater.
I do believe the Democrats will do their best to achieve the goal of economic collapse with a strong possibility of succeeding.
We need to be rid of the Democrats PERIOD!
Ping
For once I recognized a good deal when I saw one — A year ago noticed a 10 KW gas / propane genset with good reviews on clearance for $750. Snapped it up. Maybe it was 2 years?
Thanks. I’ve noticed a few empty shelves, but of seemingly unrelated items. All last year, drain cleaning solutionslike Drano seemed to be in short supply. The other day, my store was out of tomato juice and regular V8. Chicken bouillon was also in short supply. A nearby 7-11 was short of frozen products like ice cream and pizza. And I’m once again seeing reduced supplies of paper products - toilet tissue, paper towels, and paper plates, although it still isn’t as bad as last year.
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