Supply chain disruptions?

Don M. said:
If nothing else, these shortages will show the "dangers" of moving the manufacturing of so many consumer products to China. Saving a few percentage points on costs, due to the low wages in China, might be OK, UNTIL something like these shortages occurs, and we have NO recourse. Hopefully, these shortages will provide some incentives to return a lot of this manufacturing back to our shores. We would be far better off paying a bit more for US labor, than facing the "price gouging" and shortages when the supply chain is interrupted.
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Excellent post. Bring back all those jobs here and hire Americans. This will put a stop to all of these contrived "shortage" crises.
 

chic said:
All was great at the store today. Everything is well stocked. Back to normal or seems so. They have the Christmas candy out already but still no Halloween candy which is very weird. :sneaky:
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Plenty of Halloween candy here (crunch, crunch), unfortunately.

Plus, a Culver’s just opened very near to us and when we bought a can of chili at Smith the back of the receipt had buy one get on free concrete mixers on it. So, no shortage of custard either. 🤦🏻‍♀️ No wonder my blood sugar is, well, challenged.
 
As stated here before this, let's stop outsourcing and begin manufacturing at home, hiring our own citizens and paying them a living wage with benefits and bonuses plus a decent pension plan. Greedy CEO's and Wall Street should look back at the 50's and 60's when we had all that. Our country and others who followed our pattern were doing very well indeed. Including the bosses.
 

oldiebutgoody said:
Excellent post. Bring back all those jobs here and hire Americans. This will put a stop to all of these contrived "shortage" crises.
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Lewkat said:
As stated here before this, let's stop outsourcing and begin manufacturing at home, hiring our own citizens and paying them a living wage with benefits and bonuses plus a decent pension plan. Greedy CEO's and Wall Street should look back at the 50's and 60's when we had all that. Our country and others who followed our pattern were doing very well indeed. Including the bosses.
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Sorry, but patriotism stops at the checkout counter. No way Americans will start paying 30% more (or higher) to support American jobs. If they were, those jobs would never have left our shores in the first place because people would have refused to buy foreign made goods.

Bringing 1960s type factory work back to the US is little more than a fantasy. Thinking Americans are interested in the grinding monotony of factory work is yet another fantasy. (I worked in a factory during the summer between HS and college and though the pay was double minimum wage, I was more than happy to leave when school started, and didn't return the following summer. A job as a McDonald's counter person paid less but was more interesting so that's what I chose.)

The rare factories operating in the US are highly automated to keep labor costs at a minimum. Bringing manufacturing back would be more of that.

The world spins forward not back.
 
Winter is about to hit, have enough here in case of storms etc to survive a few months.
Have noticed some empty shelves up this way, mostly frozen meals, pop and bread vanishes. I don't eat the bread from stores anymore, I learned how to make my own. Butt wipe , paper towels etc. vanish when on sale. Thinking locals have learned to keep a higher level in the pantry. Coffee, tea over 700 individual for each. I also buy in bulk, as other smart people do.... :D :D :devilish:
 
Lakeland living said:
Winter is about to hit, have enough here in case of storms etc to survive a few months.
Have noticed some empty shelves up this way, mostly frozen meals, pop and bread vanishes. I don't eat the bread from stores anymore, I learned how to make my own. Butt wipe , paper towels etc. vanish when on sale. Thinking locals have learned to keep a higher level in the pantry. Coffee, tea over 700 individual for each. I also buy in bulk, as other smart people do.... :D :D :devilish:
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Why is it that if someone does not do what others say they do, they are not smart, or not intelligent, or some other word questioning their abilities. I do not buy a lot of stuff-except toilet paper-not having toilet harmed my mental health.

But I haven’t bought it in months. I still have a couple months worth left.
 
More and more empty shelves in Michigan. The other day Krogers had at least a 1/3 of their meat freezers totally empty. Also out of most of the canned soups and spaghetti sauces. Today at Aldi, totally out of ALL frozen vegetables.

Lots of stories on the news about kids may not be getting their favorite toy under the Xmas tree. If this trend keeps up, they may be lucky to get a can of soup
 
HarryHawk said:
More and more empty shelves in Michigan. The other day Krogers had at least a 1/3 of their meat freezers totally empty. Also out of most of the canned soups and spaghetti sauces. Today at Aldi, totally out of ALL frozen vegetables.

Lots of stories on the news about kids may not be getting their favorite toy under the Xmas tree. If this trend keeps up, they may be lucky to get a can of soup
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It’s panic buying and now they will be stuck with all that canned soup 🤮. As for kids not getting their favorite toy boo-hoo, lots of poor kids never get any toys at Christmas let alone a favorite toy.

Maybe you meant to say lots of RICH or well off spoiled kids won’t get their favorite toy at Christmas. In reality, lots of kids won’t have a Christmas tree at home, because they are homeless.

It is ALL media hype, all of it. Most of the shortages are artificial or a certain brand is not available. I don’t see McDonald running out of hamburger. As for Christmas, Christmas is about the birth of JC, not about a favorite toy under a fake tree. Perhaps it’s a good time to remind our children of this fact.
 
Aneeda72 said:
It is ALL media hype, all of it. Most of the shortages are artificial or a certain brand is not available. I don’t see McDonald running out of hamburger. As for Christmas, Christmas is about the birth of JC, not about a favorite toy under a fake tree. Perhaps it’s a good time to remind our children of this fact.
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Our families are just about "toyed out". The little great grandkids have gotten so many toys, over the years, that their homes are almost cluttered. We're thinking seriously about just giving them some money this Christmas...and let them go shopping for something more useful...school supplies, clothing, etc., etc. They are getting old enough that having to chose what to spend money on might begin to give them some good lessons in "financial" prudence.
 
I went to the eye doctor, had the exam, and ordered a new pair of glasses and a new set of contacts. That was a month ago and nothing has happened, it was always just a couple of days in the past. Hmmm. Those little overpriced pieces of plastic must be in short supply.
Aunt Bea said:
The dollar store is well stocked with foreign made Christmas goods so I tend to think that this will be another crisis that will suddenly resolve itself when it falls out of the news cycle.
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Well that's good to know. A few years ago I decided I was tired of storing Christmas decorations on the square of plywood we call the attic. Watching my husband risk his life carrying the stuff down the ladder began to seem like a bad idea, so we decided we would throw most of it out at the end of each season and buy new shiny stuff at the dollar store every year. It's been fun, one year I did the tree all in silver bulbs and white ribbons and the next year all red bulbs and flowers. This year who knows what will be on offer.
 
I think the empty shelves were from panic buying due to media scare tactics. Everyday on the road I see trucks of every kind delivering groceries and fuel oil and consumer goods. The stores are much more back to normal and gas prices have, at last, stabilized. I'm not going to worry about this anymore.
 
I just got off the phone with one of my (apparel) suppliers. I was hoping for updated information on some backorders that have gone unfilled for a few months.

My rep told me about an all-company after hours Zoom meeting yesterday. As of now, their company alone has over 700 shipping containers "on the water" with no firm dates on off-loads or rail/truck deliveries to their warehouses once the containers get onto the docks.

The owner of this 55 year old company acknowledged they're losing money right now but are in it for the long haul so they're holding prices steady, doing fractured shipping (drawing from several warehouses across the country to complete their orders) with free freight to long-term customers, and generally doing everything possible to retain their customers and help ensure we're all still in business when everything normalizes.

People who think the global supply chain crisis is mythical or media created are fooling themselves. Companies do not make profits unless they sell (and ship) products. Stores lose money if people buy less because the shelves are empty.

Will it get sorted out? Of course. Eventually things will settle down. That said, there will be some shortages in the meantime. And while the US won't be experiencing Soviet 1970s-80s pain, there are now and will continue to be very real shortages in our near futures.
 
The shelves were full at Costco today. That includes their pot pie & Kirkland TP. There weren’t any frozen mini pastry shells. That’s likely just because of the demand at this time of the year. Quite often they can’t keep them in stock.

Quality furniture is at least an eight month wait, more likely a year for a special order. SSon had this wait too.
 
oldiebutgoody said:
As you can see I did not imagine the $80K figure as it has been mentioned on radio here in the Twin Cities both in ads and radio discussions. Evidently, some have taken advantage of these job opportunities although I cannot possibly account for why more have not done so. And while it may be true that some of these jobs may not be ideal (although to me nothing can be worse than being a @#$#@ accountant as that job sᵘcks beyond all manner of description) at least this shows that there are jobs out there. In a land of over 300 million people there simply is no such thing as a labor shortage.
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Just as a follow up, re all that talk about labor shortage:





As a commentator says: "Employers are basically looking for a 20 year old employee with 35 years experience who they can pay minimum wage with no benefits."



The contrived labor "shortage" is just a capitalist way of creating supply shortage so that they can jack up prices and generate huge profits while keeping people from working so that they don't have to pay corporate FICA and unemployment insurance taxes. It is nothing more than a scam.
 
Today, Foodland had full shelves, 40.00 dollars for 3 steaks. (Yes really) these were about 6 ounce. Pack of 4 peppers 8.99. Sooo of course I left them there also.
Nofrills, same pack of peppers, 3.99...nice large ones no steak offered there. Ground beef extra lean..1.89 lb. over 5.00 for the same at Foodland. 10 pound potatoes. 2.98. They were 6 dollars in Foodland.
One isle showed empty spaces..tp of course, paper towels empty.
You have a choice buy or don't. Or, you could go steal a truck load...apparently it is really happening
:ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO: :devilish:
https://search.brave.com/search?q=Transport+truck+stolen+full+of+toilet+paper&source=desktop
 
Lakeland living said:
Today, Foodland had full shelves, 40.00 dollars for 3 steaks. (Yes really) these were about 6 ounce. Pack of 4 peppers 8.99. Sooo of course I left them there also.
Nofrills, same pack of peppers, 3.99...nice large ones no steak offered there. Ground beef extra lean..1.89 lb. over 5.00 for the same at Foodland. 10 pound potatoes. 2.98. They were 6 dollars in Foodland.
One isle showed empty spaces..tp of course, paper towels empty.
You have a choice buy or don't. Or, you could go steal a truck load...apparently it is really happening
:ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO: :devilish:
https://search.brave.com/search?q=Transport+truck+stolen+full+of+toilet+paper&source=desktop
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This is true in most areas, @Lakeland living. Some grocery stores are incredibly expensive, others are more reasonable.
I only patronize the lower priced stores.
 
While browsing down the aisle today at the grocery store, I noticed almost no sugar. This is no biggie for me since I don't use sugar but I wondered if anyone else is noticing the same. For the most part our grocery stores are well stocked.
 
for those of you who are still convinced that there is some labor shortage or supply shortage, consider this:


https://www.reuters.com/business/re...enue-estimates-higher-meat-prices-2022-02-07/


Tyson withheld meat from the market thereby "justifying" price increases. While they claimed labor costs went up, it will be recalled that they fired many workers which actually reduced their labor costs:

https://www.fooddive.com/news/tyson...ky-poultry-plant-as-product-mix-shift/617540/


Said before and will say again: there are no such shortages. This is a lie made up by the corporate profiteers and which is used to jack up prices, increase inflation, and maximize profits.
 

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