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

[Male Idiot]

$6.99 for a pound of chuck roast. Holy fucking shit.


At least Nintendo doesn’t publish wokeshit like Sony.

Yeah for that you can get the cheaper angus part here. Ribeye is double though.

 

[Suikafag]

Nobodys posted it here so guess I’ll share. Apparently theres been a tampon shortage, Though currently the only article about it is from TIME.

The Great Tampon Shortage of 2022: The Supply Chain Problem No One’s Talking About (Archive)

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[SCSI]

Nobodys posted it here so guess I’ll share. Apparently theres been a tampon shortage, Though currently the only article about it is from TIME.

The Great Tampon Shortage of 2022: The Supply Chain Problem No One’s Talking About (Archive)

I just realized how 2022 could get worse -- Yaniv exploits his strategic tampon reserve to corner the market and become a multimillionaire.

 

[Long Tongue Silver]

Paid $4.20 for premium the other day, but that's just another perk of being a Costco member. Other places are at least $0.50 higher, at minimum.

Speaking of Costco, you'll know shit's getting real when they up the price of the $1.50 hotdog/drink combo or stop selling it altogether.

That $4.20 is now $4.78. Let's go Brandon.

No word on the hotdog. Also heard a news segment mention the rotisserie chickens as their loss leader. Should go pick one of those up later.

 

[Blobby's Murder Knife]

Nobodys posted it here so guess I’ll share. Apparently theres been a tampon shortage, Though currently the only article about it is from TIME.

The Great Tampon Shortage of 2022: The Supply Chain Problem No One’s Talking About (Archive)

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I have a stockpile, but this makes me curious. I will go to my big boxes on Thursday and see if there is anything to report on this.

 

[George Lucas]

Nobodys posted it here so guess I’ll share. Apparently theres been a tampon shortage, Though currently the only article about it is from TIME.

The Great Tampon Shortage of 2022: The Supply Chain Problem No One’s Talking About (Archive)

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Mine has always said ‘They’re less healthy’ and sticks to pads. No idea if that’s true.

 

[FarmerKhourtney]

Pads are definitely something you can fashion out of reusable objects if the SHTF , luckily
Hippies already use reusable menstrual pads
Tampons are another thing entirely, you really can’t stick any old material up there

 

[Blobby's Murder Knife]

Pads are definitely something you can fashion out of reusable objects if the SHTF , luckily
Hippies already use reusable menstrual pads
Tampons are another thing entirely, you really can’t stick any old material up there

Yeah, not sure how I would replace a tampon exactly. Some people use menstrual cups. I never have been interested in that though, for whatever autistic reason of mine.

 

[Blobby's Murder Knife]

Yeah, no, at least in my market both Target and Walmart had plenty of tampons. However, like I noted before, the store shelves are bizarrely full of everything. Uneducated Economist said that this would happen as the shipments from months ago are being seen on shelves which will lead to lower prices on some things in the short run as retailers try to liquidate months of backstock. My local Walmart had to rent conexes to store all the extra stock they are getting in and have nowhere to put. It is an interesting situation. At anyrate, now is the time to stock up.

 

[Nique la mere de Macron]

Pads are definitely something you can fashion out of reusable objects if the SHTF , luckily
Hippies already use reusable menstrual pads
Tampons are another thing entirely, you really can’t stick any old material up there

Not a hippie, but the washable "period underwear" (built-in pad, no leaking, pay for themselves within a reasonable amount of time) are the BEST for avoiding shortages, whether they are shortages caused by the global supply chain or shortages caused by a failure to plan ahead. Better for people who work at home, of course.

 

[the fall of man]

It is reverse. Corporations and rich own the government, not the other way around.
The two are merged, but the (((tail))) is wagging the (Hill)dog.

Replying to something from a few days ago, I apologize. But this is exactly correct; the system is called inverted (or reverse) totalitarianism and it is suggested to have become the dominant form of rule in the US during the Bush Administration.

Edit: News:

https://twitter.com/zerohedge/status/1534596379066122241?

 

[Blobby's Murder Knife]

Uneducated Economist mentioned this article and it is pretty interesting:

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/us-import-demand-drops-off-a-cliff

One of the more interesting points made in the article was that retailers were overbuying and hoarding because they are also concerned about future supply chain stocks. So...prepping, heh?

Anyway, Target has said they are just way overburdened with inventory and will have to lower prices to move it. I can't imagine, based on what I have seen with my own eyes in the Wallyworld parking lot that Walmart is in any different situation.

Edit: Economic Ninja just dropped a vid on this:

 

[the fall of man]

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/hormel-ceo-warns-large-supply-gaps-jennie-o-turkey-brand

https://archive.ph/NY8Gm

https://www.zerohedge.com/commodities/first-time-ever-national-average-gas-price-5

https://archive.ph/Emobk

Gas is $5 nationally, turkeys are susceptible to the avian flu, and you ain't gonna like the price of ground turkey for "several months".

How do the rich taste?

 

[FatalTater]

I keep hearing complaints of an inability to get workers at businesses.

Fucking WHY? Is it just that stupid antiwork subreddit putting worms in people's brains?
After eleventy years of pandemic lockdowns you'd think a lot of folks would want a job just to have something to do.

 

[Toy Soldier]

I keep hearing complaints of an inability to get workers at businesses.

Fucking WHY? Is it just that stupid antiwork subreddit putting worms in people's brains?
After eleventy years of pandemic lockdowns you'd think a lot of folks would want a job just to have something to do.

Just going to throw out some guesses.

-Rent in most urban environments is so high that if you're not working fulltime at a $25 per hour or more job it's not really worth it
-People have been increasingly fleeing the bugman hives from said high rent to either live in the middle of nowhere or back with their family
-Gas prices are so high that living in a cheaper area and driving an excessive distance to work in some bugman paradise is also not worth it
-Having to pay 50% of your income to the state that's slowly draining us all of life seems like an evil prospect when you could just bum around with low pay under the table jobs who's income you don't have to report while paying little or nothing in rent if your family can actually put up with you
-General malaise

 

[FatalTater]

Yeah, factoring in gas prices it might actually cost more to work than to not in some areas.

 

[Smoke Manmuscle]

Yeah, factoring in gas prices it might actually cost more to work than to not in some areas.

We have had some people quit where I work to go sit at home and collect a tugboat because it’s more cost effective. And I live in one of the cheapest parts of the nation for COL.

 

[Angry Alt Right Nerd]

I keep hearing complaints of an inability to get workers at businesses.

Fucking WHY? Is it just that stupid antiwork subreddit putting worms in people's brains?
After eleventy years of pandemic lockdowns you'd think a lot of folks would want a job just to have something to do.

Shame, we'll just all have to learn to live without stupid boomer restaurant #4935

 

[Basic Blonde Boy]

I keep hearing complaints of an inability to get workers at businesses.

Fucking WHY? Is it just that stupid antiwork subreddit putting worms in people's brains?
After eleventy years of pandemic lockdowns you'd think a lot of folks would want a job just to have something to do.

I can help answer a bit of this as I am the target age range:

1. Companies are still picky as fuck. They may say they are struggling, but I have spent this last year applying for both a minimum wage position (to get through last year of college) and internship positions within the very open tech field (according to my dad who works in marketing for such). You wouldn't believe how hard it is to get work still, and I am someone with a good record, with quite a few jobs on my resume. Even applying for like Chick-Fil-A a year ago, they still wouldn't communicate.
2. Parents also impact it. Zoomers come from Gen X, which is a pretty well-known party gen. From my experience, they tell their kids to not work even though they want them to. Basically, they want you to work like 10 hours a week because you should really be out partying instead or doing "x" school activity. In a decision between sports or minimum wage, parents will lead their kids towards sports. Basically, we turned school into an enterprise that gets free labor off kids with threats of being unfit for college if you don’t waste your young adult life on extra-curriculars, so school shoves out work.
3. Burn-out Zoomers. I have experienced these since high school. Many Zoomers are burn-outs, giving up an any sense of improvement or living life past playing video games in their room. Given how bleak the world has been for young people since the millennial generation, it is no surprise a gen would grow to be disillusioned with it.
4. Covid requirements - pretty self explanatory
5. Economy, with prices getting so high, most wages cannot cover shit. It doesn’t help that many made more off government money than from work during Covid.

 

[Brazen Wanker]

"We can't find workers" is basically a manufactured narrative to justify the continued migration of cheap labor to the developed western world.