Supply chain disruptions?

chic said:
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.
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Not at Costco and I only need sugar for the hummingbirds . 1 part sugar 4 parts water...They love it!!
 

oldiebutgoody said:
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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We live in "Tyson" country, with gobs of chicken and turkey farms, and a large Tyson factory about 25 miles away. During the height of this Covid pandemic, last year, they had a problem with workers out sick with this virus. Over the past few months, their production seems to have ramped up again.
Most of their production line workers appear to be "immigrants". If you go to the Walmart in that town on a weekend, you almost feel "out of place" speaking English. I doubt that Tyson is paying much more than minimum wage....and if ICE ever visited that plant, they might arrest or deport half the workforce.
 
oldiebutgoody said:
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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Many companies are dealing with shortages of qualified, experienced labor. Global supply chain issues are also very real - Tyson Foods' profit picture and changing product lines notwithstanding.
 

Don M. said:
We live in "Tyson" country, with gobs of chicken and turkey farms, and a large Tyson factory about 25 miles away. During the height of this Covid pandemic, last year, they had a problem with workers out sick with this virus. Over the past few months, their production seems to have ramped up again.
Most of their production line workers appear to be "immigrants". If you go to the Walmart in that town on a weekend, you almost feel "out of place" speaking English. I doubt that Tyson is paying much more than minimum wage....and if ICE ever visited that plant, they might arrest or deport half the workforce.
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People can't have it both ways. They don't want the illegals crossing the southern border. But guess who is providing the labor for Tyson to supply meat for supermarkets? Hopefully, ICE will not do any raids because there sure will be a lot more complaints about shortages.

Americans don't want to do that type of awful, tedious, smelly work in turkey-chicken factories.
 
oldiebutgoody said:
But they do through increasing prices which is what they are doing now. They have had six months to hire all those who graduated from high schools (or who dropped out of school) to drive their trucks. Nobody is stopping them from hiring them.
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"They have had six months to hire all those who graduated from high schools (or who dropped out of school) to drive their trucks. Nobody is stopping them from hiring them." Actually that's not true. I finally got to talk with my son about this. He's been driving truck for years and is also a certified trainer with J.B. Hunt. He said he has no problem with young people driving truck if they have the experience but that J.B. Hunt would not be hiring any teenagers. I asked him if that was a J.B. Hunt policy or all trucking companies. He said it's a federal law that trucking companies cannot hire anyone under the age of 21.
 
katlupe said, " I read that the shortages were due to not enough truck drivers. Truck driving jobs are plentiful around here right now." It seems were running out of humans to fill supply jobs. In Oct. 2021 I posted that a manufacturing company ear me kept running a TV ad for forklift operators. At that time they had been running the ad for months. It's March, and the ad is still on TV.?????
 
I have definitely seen some shortages, but for us, nothing critical. I really don't know what the general issues are, just confirming that, yes, I personally have seen some shortages.
 
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