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

Should the title be re-worded to expand the scope of the thread?

  • The US Trucking Crisis of 2021 works fine

    Votes: 25 9.4%
  • The US Logistics Crisis of 2021

    Votes: 30 11.2%
  • The US Transportation Crisis of 2021

    Votes: 7 2.6%
  • The US Supply Chain Crisis of 2021

    Votes: 35 13.1%
  • Global Supply Chain Crisis 2021

    Votes: 206 77.2%

  • Total voters
    267
  • Poll closed .
So much looting on Union Pacific train tracks it caused a train to derail. I see the simulation is just shitposting now.
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UPS is saying over a 100 million dollars in damages which includes liability.
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Went to the store and USDA Choice New York strip steak was $5.99/lb. Rather odd considering nothing else beef, not even ground beef, was cheaper. Whatever is going on with the beef market is absolute absurdity.
There is great grassfed beef for half the normal store prices at grocery outlet. A huge pile of it when this started, and it has been getting smaller and smaller. Glad I stockpiled because I suspect they may actually be hitting the bottom of the barrel.
The world is ending.

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I've tried multiple "copycat" recipes for this cheesy starchy "hits right in the perfect comfort food spot" shit and none of them are any good. Most of them use some garbage condensed soup, which is always a warning sign that it's not going to taste like the restaurant version because they're not cracking open a can of cream of chicken every time they make a pan of casserole.

If any of you farmers have a good recipe, let me know. I am pregnant and angry and sad because things I crave keep disappearing.
I don't remember the last time I saw frozen hashbrowns in a store. At least 2 months ago now. I went looking for some to make a specific thing I was craving and got the last package on the shelf. Have not seen one in any type of store, any brand, since then.
 
Trip Report: Target's OTC cold medicines were totally wiped out today. I guess the Omicron has everybody self medicating.
Yep that's what mine looked like. Whole Foods looked like a bomb went off. Clearance Christmas stuff still going strong though, that's why I was there- I think a lot of it came in too late, actually.
 
I regularly stop by a drive thru Starbucks while doing errands. It is usually very busy, rarely slow, so, doing good business.

They reduced the hours substantially just after Christmas. Now yesterday and today they were closed, with a note on the door. The note today had changed from yesterday's and said they will be closed tomorrow as well, then open very limited hours on Thursday.

There were a couple young women present when I drove by, hauling trash out of the building and looking very tired and harried. I had never seen them before so I presume they had come from another location to help out. The store was closed at 1 pm but it looked like they were cleaning up a mess left by a crew that had left abruptly the last time it was open.

Very odd and kind of eerie. I know, I know, it's just a coffee shop. But I have seen a lot of weird things happen over the years, the aftermath of 9/11, the 2008 crash, so on and so forth. I even remember how my parents dealt with that big recession in the early 90s. And this is bizarre. Are the staff quitting? Are they all down with coof, or booster side effects? Did they walk out en masse and leave a mess? Or have medical emergencies?

I've been watching everything very carefully over the last 2 years and just have a bad, bad feeling.
I mean just from personal experience, like half ofthe people i know literally waited until the OSHA deadline to finally take the plunge on the vax. so its either fallout from that or just bad test results, if your workplace only started forcing testing this week, then chances are everyone either is infected or only the ones that regularly test are. and with how thin work crews are now unless there is proper guidelines in place losing 50% of the work force for a week or two will fuck you hard.

But yes 2022 does have that errie feelings, all signs point to covid ending this year, whether through force or media manipulation or whathaveyou. the supply chain failing and companies not willing to compete with wages means just a bunch of dead weight all over. imagine if a business bit the bullet and instead of shrinking bags just charged 2x as much for 1990s-era family size bags.

But again yes 2022 western/US feels like how russia probably felt in 1917, like the last 3 years sucked but whats coming next will make those feel like paradise.
Why are they coming out with 0% ABV beers? What's the point?
the feeling of drinking a beer, outer worlds had a joke about that with zero-g brew. honestly rather sad that Outer Worlds seems so relatable now considering it was primarily set in a "gilded age" based scifi universe. i've been using references from that for awhile especially because the entire plot sort of revolves around the big bad's absurd solution to decades of Stagflation and supply chain crisises.
3-5 inches is literally nothing, if the plows are running there should be at most a slight delay.
not everyone is some Milwaukee whore, there's plenty of sweet virginal southern ladies that can't handle even a light fingering of snow.

Modern day pirate shenanigans, time for the companies to hire looter hunters who guard the rails
where's George Zimmerman when you need him?

Seriously though these companies fucked themselves, its literal south africa now.
 
lol, now I'm hearing there's a fucking rice shortage too. Holy fucking shit. Good thing the adults are in charge, right? Massive supply chain shortages, the worst inflation in years, massive uptick in violent crime and looting in cities, increased fuel prices....but at least there's no more mean tweets!11
 
Why are they coming out with 0% ABV beers? What's the point?
Well not everyone drinks beer just to get drunk. It often starts out that way when you are young, but often when you get older you develop an actual taste for beer and some people even get into kind of a beer drinking ritual where it is just normal and comforting to drink a beer after mowing the lawn or while watching the ball game. People like that who maybe develop health issues or whatever and can't drink alcohol anymore still sometimes want the beer taste and beer drinking routine. I think maybe the 0% ABV beer is for them.

I guess it is kind of like how people normally start drinking coffee for the caffeine but as they get older that morning routine of drinking coffee becomes part of who they are and they come to like the taste of the coffee and the comfort of the routine. If for some reason they can no longer have caffeine, they start drinking decaffeinated coffee every morning because at that point it is no longer just about the caffeine.
 
lol, now I'm hearing there's a fucking rice shortage too. Holy fucking shit. Good thing the adults are in charge, right? Massive supply chain shortages, the worst inflation in years, massive uptick in violent crime and looting in cities, increased fuel prices....but at least there's no more mean tweets!11
It is going to get so much worse.
 
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