2021 shortages

[rooster]

seems like most of the gas stations have stopped stocking cold drinks of all kinds. Started with energy drinks not being stocked and now it seems everywhere I stop is short on everything.

Anyone notice anything else in dwindling supply?

 

[BehindBlueI's]

Containers are the chokepoint right now. Might be a good time to go back to reusable containers, but I doubt it will last long enough to really swing things that way. We'll weather this and go back to one use plastic/aluminum because it's the cheapest option in normal times.

 

[Leadeye]

Ice tea in pitchers poured into glasses or coffee from the pot to a mug are all we use at home. I use a thermos at work. Meat at the grocery store seems to be the fastest disappearing item and it's getting more expensive.

 

[Tyler-The-Piker]

reason and accountability

 

[Magyars]

I recently read where the US is short 130,000 truck drivers.
Add that to the backup of containerships at the ports ( LA has 73 ships waiting to unload )
And I predict shortages will continue for some time

 

[Keith_Indy]

Nothing to see here, move along…

Costco limits purchases on paper goods, water & key items amid supply chain delays

Costco is attempting to mitigate a perfect storm of port delays, higher labor and freight costs, and shortages on everything from shipping containers, trucks and drivers to various components, raw materials and ingredients.

www.foxbusiness.com

 

[Usmccookie]

Wife's uncle owns an import business. The shipping container is a real thing. For him, the price of shipping one jumped from ~$5k up to $65k this year alone. That's from China to Chicago

 

[manifest destiny]

The shortage things seems weird. I get shutdowns stop production, unemployment bene's slow the return to work. But it's been 18 months. The believers are masked, vaxxed, saluting the science and back at work. The skeptical never stopped hanging it out, sticking it where they wanted and never stopped work if they weren't made to stop. Shortages everywhere? On everything? All at once? Again, I don't discount shutdowns and the corresponding delays in ramping up. But absolutely everywhere on everything all at the same time?? Aluminum is big business. Who supplies the U.S.? Meat(s)? Cinder blocks? No conspiracy theories offered here. Just a sincere wonder that all things are short-supplied all at once. Weird.

 

[BigRed]

Destruction of the economy is part and parcel to the scamdemic.

There is no mystery in this.

Expect it to continue through late summer 2022 followed by an "amazing recovery" from really ****** to not as ****** prior to mid term central state elections.

 

[Magyars]

The quote from the guy in Connecticut was interesting.

Zerohedge

ZeroHedge - On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero

www.zerohedge.com

 

[BehindBlueI's]

The shortage things seems weird. I get shutdowns stop production, unemployment bene's slow the return to work. But it's been 18 months. The believers are masked, vaxxed, saluting the science and back at work. The skeptical never stopped hanging it out, sticking it where they wanted and never stopped work if they weren't made to stop. Shortages everywhere? On everything? All at once? Again, I don't discount shutdowns and the corresponding delays in ramping up. But absolutely everywhere on everything all at the same time?? Aluminum is big business. Who supplies the U.S.? Meat(s)? Cinder blocks? No conspiracy theories offered here. Just a sincere wonder that all things are short-supplied all at once. Weird.

Because we outsource a lot of our labor and our raw resource material extraction to places that have very little in the way of medical infrastructure and their lockdowns are for real lockdowns, many of the chokepoints are abroad. Plastic bottle manufacturing was also affected by the recent hurricanes, so it's not all COVID related. Add in the shipping issues, such as the pretty well covered Suez blockage.

That's the trouble with JIT. It's very cost effective but it's also a ballet that relies on timing. One "dancer" goes down and the rest of the line starts collapsing as well. I have a ton of respect for logistics guys who are really good at what they do, it's kind of nuts how much efficiency they add to an organization.

 

[ancjr]

The restaurants here one day won't have cups, another day they have no eggs, another day it's something else. Always something.

 

[KellyinAvon]

The restaurants here one day won't have cups, another day they have no eggs, another day it's something else. Always something.

No sliced jalapenos, no pork products, very limited soft drink selection, only chip available is Frito's...

What I just described was what I saw at various times while stationed in Iceland. Sound familiar?

 

[ditcherman]

Destruction of the economy is part and parcel to the scamdemic.

There is no mystery in this.

Expect it to continue through late summer 2022 followed by an "amazing recovery" from really ****** to not as ****** prior to mid term central state elections.

I think part of the plan is to lower our standards. Maybe that’s obvious to many, it’s hard to wrap our mind around things that are so out of the ordinary.
Instead of raising others to our standard, TPTB are bringing us to the lowest common denominator. They’ll make a bigger dependency class than what’s ever been before.

 

[ancjr]

In the past couple months I've seen a few grocery store items come back in stock for the first time in almost a year but just lately it seems like the random shortages are happening all over again.

 

[bwframe]

Wife's uncle owns an import business. The shipping container is a real thing. For him, the price of shipping one jumped from ~$5k up to $65k this year alone. That's from China to Chicago

China not only doesn't fear us or respect us any longer, they are happy to crush us economically.

They know they have three years of no mean tweets. Maybe they'll get it done?

 

[ancjr]

Shortage of mean tweets.

 

[BigRed]

I think part of the plan is to lower our standards. Maybe that’s obvious to many, it’s hard to wrap our mind around things that are so out of the ordinary.
Instead of raising others to our standard, TPTB are bringing us to the lowest common denominator. They’ll make a bigger dependency class than what’s ever been before.

Truth.

 

[firecadet613]

If you need something in the next year and can afford it, buy it now. The shortages (across all industries) will only get worse...

 

[ancjr]

If you need something in the next year and can afford it, buy it now. The shortages (across all industries) will only get worse...

Wisdom for our times.