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

[Kramer on the phone]

Working at the post office and you wouldn’t know about the shortages today from Amazon. A hundred packages for all the carriers who work Sunday’s just today.

thats because there isn't a shortage for amazon; Jeff was smart enough to basically make his own port and container ships during the start of the pandemic.

When does everyone feel we'll start seeing $20+/hr retail?

 

[FatalTater]

I do not like this push in the media lately, telling people to buy up things in anticipation of Christmas.
It reminds me of after 9/11/2001 George W Bush told people to go shopping or the terrorists win.
Makes about as much sense to me anyway.

 

[Kuritan Deplorable]

I do not like this push in the media lately, telling people to buy up things in anticipation of Christmas.
It reminds me of after 9/11/2001 George W Bush told people to go shopping or the terrorists win.
Makes about as much sense to me anyway.

My only thought is that this way, if there is a major failure 'round christmas with all the demand, they can come out and say "Hey, the government and the news warned you, not our fault". This sort of thing is the kind that leads to really angry people in the streets protesting the government when you realize they're hiding it. Getting ahead of it probably seems like the better solution, even if its no solution at all.

 

[Ancient Pioneer]

Getting ahead of it probably seems like the better solution, even if its no solution at all.

I prefer the government to be honest and lay out the risks and project what may happen in various scenarios, itself selecting the worse prognostication. This is how Churchill framed stuff during WW2 and it helped temper expectations and kept people grounded. Treating citizens like adults allows them to make informed decisions and be proactive, instead we have delusional people like Psaki saying shortages are a good sign.

 

[Quixotic Man]

We went into town to run a few errands, so this is not my local Walmart, but rather a Walmart from the nearest large city.

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Joe Biden out here making our Wal-marts looks like K-marts.

 

[Never Scored]

It's weird, it's not like you'll go to the Wal-Mart and there'll be no food at all, just random items will be missing each time. For example, I noticed there was no frozen french fries at my local Wal-Mart the last week.

 

[Michael Jacks0n]

It's weird, it's not like you'll go to the Wal-Mart and there'll be no food at all, just random items will be missing each time. For example, I noticed there was no frozen french fries at my local Wal-Mart the last week.

That's the exact same thing that's been happening to me. I have yet to see any completely empty shelves, but I'm noticing strange anomalies like all of the Campbell's soup being gone, all of the Monster Energy drinks gone, all of the sushi to-go boxes gone, etc. Everything else for the most part is fine.

 

[Sneed's Feed And Seed]

That's the exact same thing that's been happening to me. I have yet to see any completely empty shelves, but I'm noticing strange anomalies like all of the Campbell's soup being gone, all of the Monster Energy drinks gone, all of the sushi to-go boxes gone, etc. Everything else for the most part is fine.

Keep in mind that sometimes people are weird and panic-hoard odd things. PL: I had that happen in 2018 with chicharrones at my local IGA. Not even the spicy ones either, just the regular ones.

 

[Honka Honka Burning Love]

It's weird, it's not like you'll go to the Wal-Mart and there'll be no food at all, just random items will be missing each time. For example, I noticed there was no frozen french fries at my local Wal-Mart the last week.

Welcome to Just in Time inventory management.

"We have ten thousand different items"
"1% of those items have a disruption"
"We have 1000 items out of stock until shit gets sorted"

 

[jje100010001]

Not to be a debunker, but I'm pretty sure that's just a planogram. You use them to show what the layout of the shelf is supposed to look like before you stock it.

I'm not saying stores wouldn't use them to cover up barren shelves, but I do think it would pretty odd for them to suddenly start doing that after over a year of people being used to that sort of thing.

Question is why they'd need to spend money printing these out when most planograms are usually just printed on a sheet of paper to be used as reference.

My guess on why they'd be doing this is if they're re-configuring the store on a large-scale basis and are using these to mockup shelves just to test out different store product experiences.

If product shortage coverups are the real reason, my guess is that corporate finally noticed this, or felt that it reached a certain threshold, and decided to figure out a way to hide it up.

 

[Bunny Tracks]

Question is why they'd need to spend money printing these out when most planograms are usually just printed on a sheet of paper to be used as reference.

The only reason why they'd probably be doing this is if they're re-configuring the store on a large-scale basis and are using these to mockup shelves just to test out different store experiences.

If the coverup is the real reason, my guess is that corporate finally noticed this and decided to figure out a way to hide it up,

From my experience with these things, it's because it's just sometimes easier for people to understand where shit goes if it's a scale-model of it. It's easy to copy something if it's something big right next to you as opposed to tiny piece of paper that you have to keep looking down at.

These things aren't that expensive either, and it's not like they're just thrown out once they're used. They're usually for shelves that will always have roughly the same things on them, so they do get reused quite frequently.

They are also used for mock-up shelves during renovations, and reconfigurations which I'm starting to think might be going on in the pic because it appears that a good chunk of the aisle is using them.

In my experience, you'd only use 1-2 of these at a time because you're not suppose to cover a large portion of an aisle with them, and the planograms, at least when used in the places I worked at, weren't actually supposed to be placed over the section you were stocking, but rather right next to it so you didn't have to keep lifting them back up, and down to check things.

Another reason the sight of more of them says to me that this is for renovations is that they might be out so people don't end up running back, and forth with getting them, and accidentally misplacing them. Things also tend to get lost during renovations, so having them all out, and already in their place would make them easier to keep track of.

To be fair, I haven't worked in the same store (at least I don't think I have), and the place might have different work practices then the ones I know, but from what I seen, the use of these is not that out of the ordinary at all.

 

[Honka Honka Burning Love]

Question is why they'd need to spend money printing these out when most planograms are usually just printed on a sheet of paper to be used as reference.

You are talking about people who are too fuck ass retarded to understand "3 inch high can can't fit into 2 inch high space"

 

[Jarolleon]

Funnily enough, I was watching those fucking spastics over at arrse argue about the new MP being killed outrage. Someone posted a comment saying it was far worse than what Enoch imagined. Him with his 'Rivers of Blood' speech, of course.

Here is the video. No sound.

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It's not Enoch of course, but I'd be grateful if anyone who knows could tell me who this is and what the context is. I think it's probably taken some time after Enoch's speech.

Here is the Rivers of Blood speech for anyone interested:

https://anth1001.files.wordpress.com/2014/04/enoch-powell_speech.pdf

In this country in 15 or 20 years' time the black man will have the whip hand over the white man."

I can already hear the chorus of execration. How dare I say such a horrible thing? How dare I stir up trouble and inflame feelings by repeating such a conversation?

The answer is that I do not have the right not to do so. Here is a decent, ordinary fellow

Englishman, who in broad daylight in my own town says to me, his Member of Parliament, that
his country will not be worth living in for his children.


Good luck in finding the video of this in full. I'd also appreciate it if you have it to put it up with a link. I couldn't find it after 20 minutes. My cutoff point.

I'm not even proselytizing Enoch's viewpoint.

It's interesting that we can have transcripts of the words. Just like that unknown video I posted earlier. The guy seems as if he would talk with a fairly educated voice and that would be dangerous. Just like they have cut out the tongue from Powell.

The British Government did this when the IRA were on air, in the form of making Gerry Adams have a funny helium voice. I'm not advocating for Adams. What I think of him is not the point here. But to let a man have his own words, spoken in real time, well, that is something that can not be allowed when the words are powerful, no matter how comedic the voice of the original speaker. It's another way of cutting out the tongue...

Here is the Rivers of Blood transcript again - https://anth1001.files.wordpress.com/2014/04/enoch-powell_speech.pdf

And talking of cutting out people's tongues, those fucking spastics at arrse have really gone to town. It's the same 2 dozen players arguing among themselves, using big words in the Current Affairs part of the forum, then telling other people to 'JKYS' in the arrse hole. They are no worse than Kiwi Farms. In fact, they are worse, because they pretend to uphold some kind of greater moral authority, where as here, we know it's dog eat dog, every man for himself, no honour among thieves.

In fact, someone did end up killing themselves over at arrse and fingers are being pointed. I doubt anyone has the balls to make an OP thread about them, but the cunts deserve it. I don't have the balls. They are too linked to glowie shit. But still, the levels they have fallen to after not reading the site for just a year or two is fucking shocking. They really are a bunch of cunts. I'll say that much.

Anyways, Rivers of blood.

Never mind my bullshit. Just watch that video if nothing else. He sums it up in one good go IMHO.

That name for the speech is probably one of the most clever bits of propaganda the MSM pulled in the past few decades. From "Rivers of Blood" you'd think Enoch was some raving madman who wanted to kill thousands of people, or was predicting that a great massacre would happen any second now, when in truth the name only referred to a single line calling back to the Aeneid-"as I look ahead, I am filled with foreboding; like the Roman, I seem to see 'the River Tiber foaming with much blood'."

 

[Michael Janke]

Keep in mind that sometimes people are weird and panic-hoard odd things. PL: I had that happen in 2018 with chicharrones at my local IGA. Not even the spicy ones either, just the regular ones.

we saw panic hoarding when the pandemic started.
i went to walmart and noticed the usual missing stuff.
toilet paper, hand sanitizer and other cleaning products.
meat, milk. cheese and junk food, but everything else was fine for the most part.

 

[tehpope]

Apparently, schools in the southeast/west are having issues with school lunches.

 

[Kuritan Deplorable]

we saw panic hoarding when the pandemic started.
i went to walmart and noticed the usual missing stuff.
toilet paper, hand sanitizer and other cleaning products.
meat, milk. cheese and junk food, but everything else was fine for the most part.

Expect this to repeat whenever a staple food hits widespread distribution issues in a state - your average person isn't that informed, and hearing something basic like corn, or beans, are missing from shelves in just one state is enough to wake people up - We already saw a jolt of "oh shit" when rice was thin on the ground a while back. And frankly, even normies are learning to start doubting the news when they say "but it won't be a problem, its fine".

With that said, I also don't expect them to horde sensibly - Expect the frozen food aisles to get even worse when some dumbass fills a chest freezer with pizzas and frozen dinners, etc.

 

[Hippopatumus]

With that said, I also don't expect them to horde sensibly - Expect the frozen food aisles to get even worse when some dumbass fills a chest freezer with pizzas and frozen dinners, etc.

Those folks are doomed. DOOMED if there is an actual prolonged food shortage. People don't realize you need like 30 pounds of beans and rice per person, per month. When you stop eating out completely your burn rate on food is insane. As calorific as frozen pizzas are, they're nothing when that's all you have in the house.

 

[Kuritan Deplorable]

Those folks are doomed. DOOMED if there is an actual prolonged food shortage. People don't realize you need like 30 pounds of beans and rice per person, per month. When you stop eating out completely your burn rate on food is insane. As calorific as frozen pizzas are, they're nothing when that's all you have in the house.

And there's no reason to not stock them - Dried beans last years, as does rice. A lot of bad situations could be easily avoided by people not scoffing at the idea of a deep pantry - Absolute worst case scenario, the stuffs dirt cheap. If you genuinely don't eat a 5kg bag of rice, your out less than the cost of doordashing a big mac combo. And there's no excuse - 6 months of rice and beans for one person can fit on the floor of a small closet. Trust me, I know.

But folks got it in their heads that stocking up means your a weirdo. So the Hedonism will continue until the situation improves, I suppose.

 

[El Goblina]

Via Not The Bee. Dunkin Donuts more like Dunkin Do Nots.

 

[Daddy's Little Kitten]

Via Not The Bee. Dunkin Donuts more like Dunkin Do Nots.
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Madness.