Was a local gun store yesterday and was talking to the owner about it seems that his store started stocking up again. Display cases for the handguns were pretty much full, long gun racks full. Ammunition starting to fill the store again.
He does a very, very brisk business, talks to folks from every walk of life and he has some loyal customers from across the spectrum. His customers that are reliant on the supply chain all say the same thing.
Parts/Material-not having enough folks to get/make/mine the material or parts......Manufacturing-as in not having enough folks in the plants to make the stuff.....shipping-not enough drivers to deliver it all. And that ripple effect is across every industry.
Even throughout last year’s panic buying he never raised his prices, although he did limit how much one person could but at a time. And he always had very competitive prices. Now, his prices are starting to creep up because he’s paying more, due to a variety of issues, and the price gouging shills are having to reduce theirs as supply is starting to catch up with demand.
And right now, with kids being indoctrinated in schools they way they are, the fact they’ve been conditioned to thinking they’ll develop the next Facebook-Instagram-Snapchat, the talent pool is shrinking rapidly with those that want to go into the trades, fix sh*t or drive trucks. Lots of reasons for that, as well.
I work in Logistics.
The big lie out of DC is the real inflation rate
When we have to pay 30% more to ship goods that effects the economy across the board.
People are going to start feeling this the longer Biden is in office. Wage increase are not going to keep pace with inflation. Every day the Democrats stay in power the average American gets poorer