Posted on 07/15/2021 12:58:49 PM PDT by dynachrome
Just as store shelves are consistently stocked with toilet paper again, U.S. consumers could be facing another shortage this summer: suitcases.
With pent-up travel demand manifesting in the form of surging bookings, vacationers in the market for new luggage could find themselves up against product scarcity and high prices as they prepare to pack for their next round of adventures.
But it’s not just an increase in demand that has left shelves at many major retailers nearly bare. A combination of factors has led to a breakdown in the supply chain that keeps stores stocked with suitcases.
(Excerpt) Read more at thepointsguy.com ...
Ashley Kosciolek will write about another animal extinction or product scarcity next week, I’m sure. Luggage shortage? No way. Silly. In other news, we now have enough food to feed fifteen billion people and all seven billion people can live very, very comfortably in Texas. Real life is always refreshing.
Just go to a military surplus store (I know they are rare) or military surplus item related and/or hunting/outdoors website and check out the surplus and new back packs. And the good old US Military Duffle Bag.
"Did you spray that thing for bugs?"
Great. Those of us who can no longer travel because we refuse to get the vaccine can make a buck selling our old luggage.
Is this Venezuela? Every time I turn around there is a shortage of something or another.
“Asia seems to be the best at it. Pianos, tires, grandma, two cows, and a chicken on a minibike.”
I saw a collection of pics some of the most incredible ones in a magazine once. None of the bikes could have been over 150cc.
The most serious shortages we face are a shortage of common sense and a h-u-g-e shortage of courage ... especially among tens of millions of American “men”.
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