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

[Sped Xing]

Here are the payroll figures for December 2021. That is 440,000 expected, and only 199,000 added.
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Please sir no deflate dollar


Hey maybe everyone just got farm jobs! Back to the Land Biden.

 

[teriyakiburns]

Tesco are out of Mushrooms in my neck of the woods, stock jockeys didn't know when they were coming in. Mushrooms grow in dark damp areas, which is Britain 90% of the year and the norff 100% of the year. How can we be out of mushrooms?

The police had a recruitment drive.

 

[Larry David's Opera Cape]

Nobody's mentioned it yet, but one of the big things I personally suspect has been keeping people at home rather than job-hunting is the child tax credits. Those are ending soon so some of the people who figured that was enough to stay home on will start looking for other options.

Unfortunately a big part of the problem is Boomers retiring, as well as all the people who've died during the pandemic, whether it be from Covid, neckroping, ODing, or what have you. These people aren't coming back no matter what anyone does. The recent cost-of-living adjustment to SSI will keep retirees from feeling the pinch of inflation for a bit longer, and if any Boomers do go back to work it's unlikely to be at a similar job to those they left. Probably more something part time to supplement their SSI.

Workforce participation rate is apparently the lowest it's been since '79. It's really great we trashed our economy over the flu.

The monthly advance is $250 for over age 6 and $300 for under. To make rent on the average 1 bedroom apartment you'd have to be pulling in credits for 4-5 kids. Assuming you live on just that and food stamps and don't pay any other bills because of coof forgiveness programs, I suppose you could JUST make it. But you'd have to have all those kids...not many of the people working at Subway have 5 kids at home.

 

[contradiction of terns]

The monthly advance is $250 for over age 6 and $300 for under. To make rent on the average 1 bedroom apartment you'd have to be pulling in credits for 4-5 kids. Assuming you live on just that and food stamps and don't pay any other bills because of coof forgiveness programs, I suppose you could JUST make it. But you'd have to have all those kids...not many of the people working at Subway have 5 kids at home.

Eh. Depends on the family dynamic. If it's a couple with three kids, let's say, you could have income from one parent and the child tax credit might be enough to let the other stay home. I think it got discussed further back in the thread that child care has become a really big deal (yet another shortage) and some 1.5 million women are missing from the work force because they decided to stay home with their kids. A few lady Kiwis have brought this up too.

If it's a single parent... I dunno. Maybe if they were getting other benefits besides the child tax credit.

I don't think it's keeping some massive amount of people from the work force, but like I said, out of the benefits being discussed (extended unemployment bennies, stimulus, etc) it was the one that hadn't been mentioned, so I pointed out that it's likely a factor to some degree.

 

[The Littlest Shitlord]

I suspect that a lot of people who are vaccinated just feel too sick to work because of the vaccine side-effects-- but with the sort of nonspecific symptoms that are very hard to diagnose, treat, or get disability for, even when they aren't being caused by a vaccine that TBTB have decreed is perfectly safe and will do anything to cover up for. Eventually when they run out of money they'll just kill themselves or end up homeless.

 

[PotatoSalad4711]

It's anecdotal but I can confirm the amount of girls I've met on tinder in their early 20s "couch surfing" recently is insane. Reading between the lines they just find guys to buy them dinner and let them crash at their place. It wouldn't surprise me if onlyfans and the like have had a large uptick too

Oh, that’s just the Sexless Innkeeper routine.

 

[Ancient Pioneer]

Here are the payroll figures for December 2021. That is 440,000 expected, and only 199,000 added.
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I would expect Jan to be negative as all of the temporary help for the Christmas run gets laid off as usual. November and December always get an abnormal boost as people take jobs as package runners for delivery trucks or at retail outlets.

 

[Dialtone]

All Taco Bells in my hometown have closed because they have no drivers to deliver food to their stores. The grocery store today might as well have been Black Friday for how bad it was, shelves empty carts stocked, people everywhere; I paid $5 for the last bottle store brand pineapple juice.

This is it bros.

 

[glad vlad]

The three most recent times I’ve been to our local Kroger, the meat counter was closed for lack of workers, they were totally out of one class of food (chicken, milk, whatever), and there was only one checkout open, with enormous lines at self checkout. The worker shortage, I guess? I went to a fancier store and they were mostly stocked, but had similarly long lines. (I hate lines so try to shop at weird hours.)

 

[Enig]

North midwest had a false restoration due to stores wanting to look okay for the holidays, but a few weeks out and it's now worse than it was before. Produce displays are running empty, fruit juices and meat getting wiped, have fun trying to get any frozen tendies for the children/manchildren at home, mobs of people doing large runs on the pasta sections, and the only thing halfway stable is the dairy sector and that's all probably backstock from the holidays. Ever walk into a walmart only to witness the entire bakery area ransacked to 20%ish stock, because that's become reality in a place that managed to hold out for longer than expected, and given how winter fares up here it's only going to get more fucked for everything.

 

[neverendingmidi]

North midwest had a false restoration due to stores wanting to look okay for the holidays, but a few weeks out and it's now worse than it was before. Produce displays are running empty, fruit juices and meat getting wiped, have fun trying to get any frozen tendies for the children/manchildren at home, mobs of people doing large runs on the pasta sections, and the only thing halfway stable is the dairy sector and that's all probably backstock from the holidays. Ever walk into a walmart only to witness the entire bakery area ransacked to 20%ish stock, because that's become reality in a place that managed to hold out for longer than expected, and given how winter fares up here it's only going to get more fucked for everything.

Frozen anything is pretty thin in my area. Potatoes, meals, breads, ice cream seems okay at the moment but given that it's freaking January in the north, nobody really wants it.

I wanted to grab a couple of those Michelina $1 meals for lunch, and it was pretty slim pickings, my favorite (the chicken alfredo with broccoli which usually has tons) had one multipack left, and there weren't hardly any singles of anything.

 

[George Lucas]

All Taco Bells in my hometown have closed because they have no drivers to deliver food to their stores. The grocery store today might as well have been Black Friday for how bad it was, shelves empty carts stocked, people everywhere; I paid $5 for the last bottle store brand pineapple juice.

This is it bros.

Fucking hell. What’s going on with Taco Bell? Anyone have the CEO’s email?

 

[wopirish]

Fucking hell. What’s going on with Taco Bell? Anyone have the CEO’s email?

Taco Bell has fallen, we were too focused on holding BurgerTown.

 

[spastic_bag]

When stores here aren't closing down (and they are, with alarming frequency), they are still reasonably well-stocked, but the prices just keep rising and rising. Just like Let's Go Brandon had a "sticker shock" moment with beef prices, one of our politicunts had one too but with coffee.

Not to mention the online shopping international shipping fees haven't budged downwards a single cent since the last time I griped.

 

[Car Won't Crank]

Taco Bell has fallen, we were too focused on holding BurgerTown.

Demolition Man lied to me!

 

[Larry David's Opera Cape]

My usual cuppa joe order has gone up 25 cents per cup.

Had to go to urgent care for some retarded shit (not coof) the other day and found that they now ALL close early. Even ones that used to be 24 hrs now are closed from 10/12 to 8 am. I live in the biggest city in my state so this is quite the development. Was able to make an appt for the next morning by calling at the crack of dawn when the receptionist goes on and was shocked when I arrived a few hours later to see NO ONE there. Not one other person waiting. Zero. Nada.

Nobody at the lab. One guy at imaging. Otherwise, receptionists sitting around chatting and playing on their phones, and docs and nurses eager to make convo like they were lonely.

What the fuck.

 

[Long Tongue Silver]

Noticed all of the local Walmarts (at least the big ones -- no clue about the smaller "Neighborhood Stores") are closing up early. One's closing at 10pm while another is closing as early as 8pm. I'm guessing they're running thin in the staffing department.

Couldn't find any ricotta cheese there, either. The shredded cheese aisle is threadbare unless you're looking for Mexican shit. Shortages are sporadic and pop up in the weirdest places.

 

[Lorne Armstrong]

Noticed all of the local Walmarts (at least the big ones -- no clue about the smaller "Neighborhood Stores") are closing up early. One's closing at 10pm while another is closing as early as 8pm. I'm guessing they're running thin in the staffing department.

Couldn't find any ricotta cheese there, either. The shredded cheese aisle is threadbare unless you're looking for Mexican shit. Shortages are sporadic and pop up in the weirdest places.

Save money and shred your own cheese. Shredding a block of cheese yields more shredded cheese than if you bought it shredded at the store, plus you don’t have the added anti-clumping chemicals like you would with store-bought shredded cheese and eliminating that isn’t just healthier for you AND cheaper because you’re not paying for the added chemicals, but the cheese you shred yourself melts better because it doesn’t have those additives in it. This works for everything from cheddar to Parmesan and everything inbetween. Wait for sales, buy blocks of cheeses, defrost and shred as needed.

 

[teriyakiburns]

Save money and shred your own cheese. Shredding a block of cheese yields more shredded cheese than if you bought it shredded at the store, plus you don’t have the added anti-clumping chemicals like you would with store-bought shredded cheese and eliminating that isn’t just healthier for you AND cheaper because you’re not paying for the added chemicals, but the cheese you shred yourself melts better because it doesn’t have those additives in it. This works for everything from cheddar to Parmesan and everything inbetween. Wait for sales, buy blocks of cheeses, defrost and shred as needed.

Learn cheese waxing as well. It's not only great for preserving cheese long-term, it also improves the flavour if you do it right.

 

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Noticed all of the local Walmarts (at least the big ones -- no clue about the smaller "Neighborhood Stores") are closing up early. One's closing at 10pm while another is closing as early as 8pm. I'm guessing they're running thin in the staffing department.

Couldn't find any ricotta cheese there, either. The shredded cheese aisle is threadbare unless you're looking for Mexican shit. Shortages are sporadic and pop up in the weirdest places.

Local Kroger is opening an hour later and closing an hour earlier here. Walmart switched to closing at 8 about a year ago, but they're way overpriced compared to Kroger and Winco, so...