Global Supply Chain Crisis 2021: Megathread - A cozy thread for watching the supply chain fall apart just in time for the holidays

[northstar747]

I keep having trouble finding diet doctor pepper in 24 pack cans at rite aid.

 

[Phalanges Mycologist]

I keep having trouble finding diet doctor pepper in 24 pack cans at rite aid.

Oddly enough here in the UK at least in my area that's plentiful, what's running low when it comes to soft drinks are Pepsi Max (that caffeine free one is more common to find), Coke and Fanta are hit and miss but Ginger beer is practically non existent.

Crisps (chips to Americans) are available but non of the posh ones like Thai sweet chilli are not fully stocked but the old solids like Ready Salted, Cheese and Onion etc are all in stock but the stores own brands are running low.

One thing that was running low was some tinned food, like Bean Salad but Baked beans, spam etc etc is all in stock and looks normal.

 

[libRT]

There are plenty of drivers, most have just had enough of shit hours, extra bullshit added to their jobs and dwindling pay. On top of that theres automation coming in the future.

 

[Billy Beer]

Oddly enough here in the UK at least in my area that's plentiful, what's running low when it comes to soft drinks are Pepsi Max (that caffeine free one is more common to find), Coke and Fanta are hit and miss but Ginger beer is practically non existent.

Crisps (chips to Americans) are available but non of the posh ones like Thai sweet chilli are not fully stocked but the old solids like Ready Salted, Cheese and Onion etc are all in stock but the stores own brands are running low.

Space raiders are now 6 packs for a £1, instead of the 10 packs for the £1 that they were not long ago, and the packs are smaller. Same with Mccoys, the bags are smaller.

 

[Phalanges Mycologist]

Space raiders are now 6 packs for a £1, instead of the 10 packs for the £1 that they were not long ago, and the packs are smaller. Same with Mccoys, the bags are smaller.

Yea I've noticed that too, Myccoys also changed something recently in there production process and the crisps have taken on a odd flavour so I've stopped eating them.

 

[Catman from cat town]

Work at a liquor store, I can confirm Jim beam and other liquor companies are having a hard time getting the glass for their bottles. Jim beam is planning on temporarily switching completely to plastic bottles so don’t be surprised if others follow.
I’ve seen popular brands that stores carry a lot of sell out like Tito’s vodka.

 

[Billy Beer]

Yea I've noticed that too, Myccoys also changed something recently in there production process and the crisps have taken on a odd flavour so I've stopped eating them.

A lot of products are like that lately. From watered down fairy, orange/apple juice, to weak flavoured soups and crisps. I cut the junk food out a few weeks back, mainly on the back of being pissed off for paying money for something that tastes so shite. Chocolate is well bald nowadays.

 

[Beavis]

There are plenty of drivers, most have just had enough of shit hours, extra bullshit added to their jobs and dwindling pay. On top of that theres automation coming in the future.

This is true for a lot of other jobs too. Many people deciding they’d rather scrape by unemployed than scrape by dealing with asshole customers and bosses.

 

[Phalanges Mycologist]

A lot of products are like that lately. From watered down fairy, orange/apple juice, to weak flavoured soups and crisps. I cut the junk food out a few weeks back, mainly on the back of being pissed off for paying money for something that tastes so shite. Chocolate is well bald nowadays.

Yea I've mostly cut out junk food as well but when I'm out and about and I've not packed something i can't avoid it but I always regret it when I do.

I've always had a massive water bottle on me but I bumped into a friend last week and ended up in Costa and they are slimming down on the level of the beans they use per cup as well so it's just a more watery burnt coffee soup now.

 

[Smoke Manmuscle]

I have no proof of this just my powers of autism but I think this is going to get worse before better and will finally straighten out in 2023-2025. I’ve had some interviews with multiple companies in multiple types of manufacturing and depending on the product everyone is either on shoring as fast as possible or moving to find alternative supply chains that aren’t in SEA.

 

[Nopenopenope]

If there is anything the world has shown me these past few years, it's that people are total fucking morons. And the media exists to trigger them.

This fuel "crisis" has been caused by the BBC and others reporting on how disasterous it is that 10 fuel stations were out of fuel, but that people shouldn't panic buy. Knowing full well what would happen.

They did this with covid, reporting near the start about how a kid had died so it's not just old people! Left out the part about the kid having serious medical issues already, who would probably die of flu.

Cancelled my TV licence, I'm not funding this BS anymore. The new top boss is some SJW bitch from BuzzFeed ffs

*Edit turns out she's from Huffpost, even worse

 

[Phalanges Mycologist]

I have no proof of this just my powers of autism but I think this is going to get worse before better and will finally straighten out in 2023-2025. I’ve had some interviews with multiple companies in multiple types of manufacturing and depending on the product everyone is either on shoring as fast as possible or moving to find alternative supply chains that aren’t in SEA.

I've been looking for a really common stock part for a machine tool and all the local supply houses dont have any in stock at the moment and the only options are 2nd hand, and ebay for India and Chinese options with really long lead times.

I'm guessing that your 100% with the time scale but I also think that this is just the beginning of the difficulties for the next few years.

 

[teriyakiburns]

Cancelled my TV licence, I'm not funding this BS anymore. The new top boss is some SJW bitch from BuzzFeed ffs

When they send the capita "enforcement officer" around to harass you about it, and they will, just close the door on him. They have no legal power of entry.

Nothing worth watching on TV anyway these days. I make do with DVDs and a bunch of torrents, but I found I watch less in general now, now I'm not tethered to the broadcast schedule.

 

[Phalanges Mycologist]

I found I watch less in general now, now I'm not tethered to the broadcast schedule.

I don't want to sound like That guy but I've not had a TV for 10 years now and honestly I don't miss it, I'll give a show a chance on a streaming site and if I like it enough that I'd want to rewatch it I'll buy the DVD's if I can and if I cant I'll get it another way but there is less I want to watch even stuff I really loved in the past because I've seen it enough, what I am addicted to is Audiobooks with my headphones on while I am working on something, I can start and stop them and longer more interesting story's than most TV shows especially when it's from a longer book series.

 

[Hollywood Hitler]

I keep having trouble finding diet doctor pepper in 24 pack cans at rite aid.

For the past 2 weeks I've been looking for Dr.P and all they have is the cream soda ones

 

[Phalanges Mycologist]

For the past 2 weeks I've been looking for Dr.P and all they have is the cream soda ones

Wait in America they have cream soda Dr Pepper?

 

[benutz]

There are plenty of drivers, most have just had enough of shit hours, extra bullshit added to their jobs and dwindling pay. On top of that theres automation coming in the future.

Like most people these days, unless you're an actor or a politician (but I repeat myself) or sportsball superstar, you'll be victim to the same slings and arrows of outrageous fortune as all the other peasants, which is basically what you are, in case you had any doubt. Technofeudalism or wtf you want to call it. The chickens are coming home to roost. It always keeps coming back to this. Man does not plan to make life better for man, to have backups for SHTF situations like natural disasters, no!. It's all about the profit baby, about how they can milk that last drop out of the crate of oranges. It's dehumanising to the workforce. It's also dehumanising to the fat-tards that consume this culture literally ad-nauseum. Such is human nature, it would seem.

It's the way it is now. Not going to change bar a revolution and a bloody one at that, and I think at some level most people know they've been had, but know that it would have to get a whole lot worse before it got better. We've sold ourselves down the river. Then again, a lot of us on the ground and out in the field really had no input or decisive executive outcome with regard to those dehumanising edicts and diktats that were made at corporate level in the boardroom to appeal to those boomer shareholders. Or something like that. I'm making this up as I go along. Then again, so are they, never forget that. And what we are seeing now is the perfect storm of years of high malfeasance and greed, good old fashioned greed, and not learning from history. A potent brew. Many have forecast this. Sad.

Time and time again they have got away with literally sending the boys around to bully those who caused a fuss, whether employees or customers. Caught with child porn on their computers yet only suspended sentences. They are above us. We must pay for any minor transgression. But they laugh in the face of it for their own wrongdoings. Such is Anarcho Tyranny. Or something like that.

Life does have to be unfair to some degree though. I'm no lefty communist with dreams of utopia if only 'it' was done right. But here's the thing, most people are fairly simple and are perfectly happy to work a fair day's pay when they do a fair day's work. We'll come back to this, because this really is the crux of the problem. But for now, let's just take a good hard look at how easily most are manipulated, how few the expectations are of the many. How easily pleased most people are because they just don't know any better. They understand poverty of income but they do not understand poverty of experience. Well, they know it only too well, but they can not voice it or intellectualise it in a cogniscent manner. For chrissakes, they actually go out and protest to be allowed to work! To work shitty jobs, with shittly long hours, in dangerous environments, with nothing but a regular paycheck in turn and the ever-greater promise of lung cancer at the end of it. So there's that.

But people are waking up. What has been done to the natives, is then done to the newcomers, then when they cotton on, the new newcomers get it done to them, until they say fuck this for a game of soldiers as well. And this whole trucker shortage crisis is a perfect case in point of this game being played. There are many parasites here. But it's the common man on the ground that picks up the pieces.

Driving a truck to deliver our essentials, as well as our little luxuries, is, well, essential work, if we want to keep on getting said essentials and the little frilly bits on top. We won't get in to automation here as for reasons previously stated better by others in this thread, it's a long way off. It will come. Be sure of that. But not before things get worse in supermarket land. At some point automation will provide greater profits, but it won't short-term be the answer to the great question they are now facing. Because these cunts are losing money over this. They have over-reached. We might not have 'pigs in blankets' for 'Xmas', but they are losing out on projected forecasts goddamit! One is a mere tragedy, the other is a crime!

Truck drivers get paid shit money. The agencies that employ them get at least the same amount per hour as they do for no risk. That's a good deal. Nice work if you can get it. Plus they treat the drivers like shit, while they can. They overload the trucks and this puts drivers at great personal risk of being fined very high amounts - something like 1000 GBP in Bongistan, per a certain amount over load. Not unheard of to be getting fines of 4-5K when they've overloaded you by a certain amount.

Also, you can't find a decent place when you need it to perform bodily functions like having a piss and a shit. Never mind about getting decent food. I guess you can always get by with a pot noodle and some pre-made sarnies. But that doesn't help either. You get told you can't use company toilets to have a piss/shit when you just delivered a load for them (ho ho ho) by driving maybe 10 hours straight. Sorry, employees only, go fuck yerself good buddy!

And now to top it off, the government are thinking about bringing in a new rule change where you can work extra hours. The agencies already fuck over their drivers. They will just use this to screw them harder. I don't know what driving 10 hours straight is like in the US or Canada, but in the UK, the roads are smaller, we have busybody police who are only too happy to bust you for being overloaded or being over your 'drive-time' allowed. You also have other cunts on the road, and being Bongistan, that's a lot of cunts! Cash for insurance scams abound. Yeah, people really are that fuck stupid that they will slow down in front of an articulated lorry to get hit by it. They know that it has a longer stopping distance than a smaller car. The roads here tend to be wet and also quite a few aren't in great shape, so the possibility of jack-knifing your vehicle is always there should human nature take over and you hit the brakes.

A few years ago, when the agencies took over and became 'a thing' as they did in lot of areas of life, they sat down and thought really hard about how they could make more money. Fucking people over. Great. How do we do that and get away with it? First they kept the wages so low that only the Polish coming over would take that job. And they did, and it put BritBong drivers out of work, because they would not work for what was slave labour to them. But soon enough, they started to take the piss out of the Polish and they cottoned on, then they fucked off or rather got better jobs elsewhere in Bongland. So the Romanians filled the vacuum. Working for wages no one else would because they were the lowest on the totem pole.

It's a bit like how guitar manufacture moves from one Asian country to the next. It was Japan in the late 70's and you got to hand it to those fucking Nips, they started making guitars (actual real FENDER STRATOCASTERS) better than American workers could in the states. Some of those guitars are still highly sought to this day. Was it the fact that the average American worker just wanted a fair day's pay for a fair day's work, or was it the fact he wanted more than that and was greedy? Or was it the fact that boomer shareholders saw an opportunity to maximise profits, and fuck their kith and kin? Mmmm...

The same was starting to happen around the same time in Bongistan.

Selling England by the pound.

The guitar manufacturers caught on though and when they had invested in multi-million pound plants in places like Matsumoto, Nagano prefecture, they knew that there was big money to be made, and they weren't the ones fully making it. Labour laws become involved. And what do you know, that batch of guitars, say 100, 000 Fender Strats or wtf just went up in price a little bit. Don't want to pay? No problemo. We'll just make our own, change the headstock a bit to get around copyright and licensing laws (this is where the whole 'Lawsuit Strat' thing came from), and we'll sell them cheaper again than you, for now, but we'll make more profit! Fuck you gaijin.

So manufacture then moved to China, from there to Indonesia etc. etc. or something like that. I'm making it up as I go along. Then again, always remember, that so are they!

And there are parallels and metaphors aplenty with the state of things back then, with those simple humble guitar makers, and the simple humble lorry drivers now. Both wanted a fair day's pay for a fair day's work. But the big bosses always move it on to the next slave labour, be it China or Indonesia for guitars, or Poland or Romania for haulage drivers.

Selling England by the pound.

We really have just about reached that point in human history where the industrial revolution has taken full hold and is bearing its many fruits. This is just one of them. The tech revolution it spawned is another argument for another day, but of course it's related. JIT manufacture and distribution is used for just about everything these days where it can be.

Those guitar makers in Indonesia now, they work in poor conditions, getting lung cancers like the miners who extract the natural minerals from the ground. But it's a job. It's a step up for them. That argument can be made. But man always cottons on, labour unions are formed, encouraged even in some circumstances, and things shift about and move on. But the same game is being played: maximising profits at the expense of the vulnerable.

Today, Japan still manufactures guitars. Both very high end and very low end. It even outsources its manufacture to places like Indonesia and China where workers rights are more easily overlooked. They are playing the same game the Americans played. Providing a buffer zone of accountability and culpability. Not that anyone is really asking too many questions. Gibson got it with a massive fine and had to give up a load of expensive Indian Rosewood that had been maturing for decades at some of their warehouses. Didn't pay the full gibs to the politicians of the day. So they said. Or something like that. You know, they just make it up as they go along.

The tentacles of the power octopus reach far and wide. There is practically no nook or cranny left where they do not extend their grubby mits. Everyone wants a piece. Everyone else is getting paid, right? Why shouldn't I?

But the man on the ground, the guitar maker, the haulage driver, asks a different question: why can I just not get paid a fair day's pay for a fair day's work? And I ask that question too. Except I know the answer to it. Remember, these fuckers that work are dumb, yeah! It pays almost as much to not work these days.

All of these points have been made in an absolutely must-see video by the good Reverend Simon Sideways. Not a long video. Straight, to the point. Worth 10 minutes of anyone's time if you are interested enough to read this thread, and my utter bullshit so far.

HGV DRIVER CRISIS, HERE'S WHY​

HGV DRIVER CRISIS, HERE'S WHY

I explain the real reason for the uk driver shortage.links to follow me on my other Social media platforms below.https://discord.gg/gR7rSgyhttps://t.me/Rever...

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flogging a dead horse, government's answer to the driver shortage​

This is also a good video where he explains a bit more about the govt's new measures to tackle the problem, and why it won't work.

flogging a dead horse, government's answer to the driver shortage

https://gettr.com/user/revsisideways in a bid to fix the driver shortage they plan to makes us work even longer hours,this will make more drivers leave the i...

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He makes the point that there is something like a 100,000 HGV Driver shortage in Bongland. Whereas there are actually about 70,000 HGV drivers who are licensed that could take up that slack. Why don' t they? Well, if you got this far in the thread, you already know the TL;DR - The people that pull the strings don't want to pay the man on the ground and out in the field a fair day's pay for a fair day's work.

He also makes the point that such is the greed of some of these companies like the Co-op, they would rather pay over the odds to agencies who skim a shit load of the profit, rather than just pay their own drivers a decent living wage. This is without taking in to consideration that there still is no where to take a shit/piss and no where decent to eat along the way. Our country might be small but it is poorly equipped.

He does make the point that things are changing though. It's finally come to a head. Things are so fucking bad that they are actually having to start paying drivers a decent day's pay for a decen't day's work. It's still a shit job, but he's just getting paid a bit more for it. Till the next gig, and while the going is good he is going to do what any other mother fucker in his position would do: monkey branch to the better gig, be that wages or living/working conditions. When you spend that amount of time in a 'cab', it kind of becomes your living space.

To do this job you have to have a certain temperament. He admits to being anti-social and liking/preferring his own company. So you see, the shelves don't need to be bare. The roads don't need to be driverless. We can all have what we want if we just pay what is fair. But of course, some cats who are fat will fight tooth and nail to stop that from ever happening. Even to the point of paying more through the nose just out of fucking spite.

The Polish and the Romanians have fucked off back to their own countries. Not because of Brexit (ok, might have had something to do with it), but because their own countries have shortfalls of 60,000 drivers, 70,000 drivers themselves. See France. See Germany. Those immegrants and gimmegrants make great Doctors and Architects, but shitty fucking HGV drivers it would seem. Plus, cost of living is like 30-40 percent cheaper in Poland than in UK. So that's a significant increase in quality of life when most of them just get treated like white niggers here in Bongland, anyway. Incentive enough to fuck off back home. What you thought those ho's were loyal?

Selling England by the pound.

Spoiler: TL;DR:

Spoiler: LYRICS

Lyrics
"Can you tell me where my country lies?"
Said the uni faun to his true love's eyes
"It lies with me!" cried the Queen of Maybe
For her merchandise, he traded in his prize
"Paper late!" cried a voice in the crowd
"Old man dies!" The note he left was signed 'Old Father Thames'
It seems he's drowned
Selling England by the pound
Citizens of hope & glory,
Time goes by, it's the time of your life
Easy now, sit you down
Chewing through your Wimpey dreams,
They eat without a sound
Digesting England by the pound
Young man says "you are what you eat" eat well
Old man says "you are what you wear" wear well
You know what you are, you don't give a damn
Bursting your belt that is your homemade sham
The Captain leads his dance right on through the night
Join the dance
Follow on! Till the Grail sun sets in the mould
Follow on! Till the gold is cold
Dancing out with the moonlit knight,
Knights of the Green Shield stamp and shout
There's a fat old lady outside the saloon
Laying out the credit cards she plays fortune
The deck is uneven right from the start
And all of their hands are playing apart
Captain leads his dance right on through the night
Join the dance
Follow on! A round table talking down we go
You're the show
Off we go with, you play the hobbyhorse,
I'll play the fool
We'll tease the bull
Ringing round & loud, loud & round
Follow on! With a twist of the world we go
Follow on! Till the gold is cold
Dancing out with the moonlit knight,
Knights of the Green Shield stamp and shout

Even in the 70's the very roots of this problem were being expounded on.

There are references to 'Wimpey' - a burger chain akin to McDonalds that started sprouting up in the 70's. Fast food. Fast buck. Selling England by the (quarter) pound(er). Also references to the Green Shield Stamps - buy one get one free - just save these up and get a new set of whatever it is you don't need. They used to sell these in petrol stations when you tanked up your car. Or rather, gave them away, when you tanked up a certain amount. They became a kind of counter currency. We might not have had food stamps like the greatest war generation, but we had our own new incentives. And just like every new generation that thinks it's got it better than the one previously, who do not recognize 'poverty of experience', it thinks it's winning. It thinks it's ahead. For a few trinkets and tokens.

There's a fat old lady outside the saloon
Laying out the credit cards she plays fortune
The deck is uneven right from the start
And all of their hands are playing apart

None of this is new.

But it's that new day for all of us, where we get to become part of history. We've managed to avoid it so far. Well, that day has now come. It will be avoided no longer.

Just as those other dogs got to have their day, so shall we have ours, too.

Follow on! With a twist of the world we go
Follow on! Till the gold is cold

Selling England, by the pound.

 

[Übertroon]

You can blame Covid, but I don't think it's the main reason why these shortages are happening, it has simply sped up the problem.

What I'm seeing is the situation that the people who built the system, who knows how it works and know how to run it are all retiring or dying. The architects of modern society have left the building, and you're left with incompetent morons who have no idea on how to respond to a crisis like Covid.
Just look at the current fuel crisis in the UK, they've known for some time now that this problem was coming, and yet nothing was done, well, let's see, who is the head of of the government department meant to deal with this problem?

mmmm, I'm starting to suspect where the problem lies.

 

[The golden neckbeard]

Can somebody explain to me what's causing this?

Costco was out of Toilet paper last night and all the chicken quarters got wiped out. There were still a few breasts but lots of empty shit.

I love chicken quarters, it always pisses me off when panic sets in because they are the first thing to go because of cost. After the intial Covid madness we went months without a fully functional and fully stocked meat store. I dont know who the fuck was buying so much shit the local grocery stores looked like something you would see in the Soviet Union

 

[Zbk3VmLfujjzjxBd43tL]

This has been going on for months but now that the media's taken notice of it and shat out some articles the problem ends up far worse because the retards are panic buying just like it's March/April 2020. No wonder most governments in history censored the press.