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The Great Tampon Shortage of 2022: The Supply Chain Problem No One’s Talking About
Yahoo News ^ | 06/09/2022 | Alana Samuels

Posted on 06/16/2022 5:30:36 AM PDT by millenial4freedom

Sometimes when I am grocery shopping, even if I am there just for broccoli, I’ll swing by the aisle where they stock feminine products. Because, even though most of the things that disappeared during the pandemic like toilet paper, yeast, and flour have returned to the shelves, tampons are still in short supply. It’s become a strange fascination of mine, to see the large gap on the shelf, like a missing front tooth, where tampons are supposed to be.

In the last few months, I’ve visited stores in New York, Massachusetts, and California—no tampons. And it’s not just me. Dana Marlowe, the founder of I Support the Girls, which provides bras and menstrual hygiene for people experiencing homelessness, told me that her organization has seen a big drop off in tampon donations. “What’s been going on for a couple months is that organizations call us up and say, ‘we need tampons,’ and we go to our warehouse and there’s nothing there.”

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Chit/Chat; Local News; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: bidenflation; economy; funny; supply; tampons; women
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Well, gals, I'd have sympathy - but most of you, particularly those of you who are young and college-educated, fervently voted for the current crop of destructive politicians in office.

My advice? Vote with your brains, not your emotions. In the meantime, identify as a man so you don't have to menstruate!
1 posted on 06/16/2022 5:30:36 AM PDT by millenial4freedom
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To: millenial4freedom

Didn’t they increase demand with men using them now?


2 posted on 06/16/2022 5:32:53 AM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: millenial4freedom

Can’t she just use a spare sock?


3 posted on 06/16/2022 5:34:14 AM PDT by glorgau
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To: PeterPrinciple

Beat me by 2 minutes!!!


4 posted on 06/16/2022 5:34:52 AM PDT by Antihero101607
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To: millenial4freedom

Maybe, just maybe it’s all those men who identify as women buying them and increasing the demand? After all ladies men can be come pregnant now 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣


5 posted on 06/16/2022 5:35:48 AM PDT by Lockbox (politicians, they all seemed like game show hosts to me.... Sting)
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To: millenial4freedom

Why don’t the womyn just steal them out of the boys bathrooms where the leftards have been hiding them.


6 posted on 06/16/2022 5:36:23 AM PDT by WMarshal (Neocons and leftists are the same species of vicious rat.)
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To: millenial4freedom

First, baby formula. Now, tampons. Democrats have run out of identity groups to pander too. May as well start a war against the ones that are not all in. Is this Biden’s war on women?


7 posted on 06/16/2022 5:38:07 AM PDT by chuckee
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In the last few months, I’ve visited stores in New York, Massachusetts, and California—no tampons.

Maybe if Ms. Samuels, currently senior economics correspondent at TIME magazine, previously The Atlantic, The Los Angeles Times, and The Boston Globe, traveled outside of her echo chamber to a red state, she'd find some supply.

8 posted on 06/16/2022 5:38:10 AM PDT by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s^2)
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To: millenial4freedom

what a bloody mess!


9 posted on 06/16/2022 5:40:04 AM PDT by GQuagmire
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To: millenial4freedom

Are the men..pretending to be women.. hoarding them?


10 posted on 06/16/2022 5:40:15 AM PDT by Leep (Hillary will NEVER be president! 😁)
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To: millenial4freedom

I understand many schools and colleges store them in boys/mens restrooms. Perhaps they should search a little further.


11 posted on 06/16/2022 5:40:17 AM PDT by hinckley buzzard ( Resist the narrative.)
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To: GQuagmire

They can just stuff their tampon shortage.


12 posted on 06/16/2022 5:40:37 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: millenial4freedom
If they just didn't use them for earrings?


13 posted on 06/16/2022 5:41:27 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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14 posted on 06/16/2022 5:42:32 AM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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To: WMarshal
The men's room in my workplace still doesn't have tampons.

I'm starting to feel that my company just doesn't care about the feminine needs of the men that work here. Oh well, I guess I'll just have to power through it.

16 posted on 06/16/2022 5:45:46 AM PDT by SamAdams76 (3,276,842 active users on Truth Social)
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To: millenial4freedom

What happened to Pete Buttigieg. He is supposed to be handling situations like these, yet they keep occuring.


17 posted on 06/16/2022 5:46:44 AM PDT by maxwellsmart_agent
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To: millenial4freedom

If a Republican were in the White House, this what the Democrats would be saying:

“I think the Administration goal here is to force women back into the home and back to having kids. Why else constrain the supply of tampons?”

So why not say the same?


18 posted on 06/16/2022 5:46:50 AM PDT by BobL (My hatred of Necons/Globalists exceeds my love of Ukraine or any other country, other than the US)
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Oh...so these broads are going to stop voting for commies because they can’t get some perfume or whatever?


19 posted on 06/16/2022 5:48:28 AM PDT by gr8eman (Qui non laborat, non manducet)
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To: millenial4freedom

Blame the two douche bags in the WH


20 posted on 06/16/2022 5:52:17 AM PDT by bort
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