Can't find what you need at the store?
'Out of stock' is a sign of the times
New York Times,
by
Peter S. Goodman
&
Keith Bradsher
Original Article
Posted By: Ribicon,
8/31/2021 10:32:26 AM
Like most people in the developed world, Kirsten Gjesdal had long taken for granted her ability to order whatever she needs and then watch the goods arrive, without any thought about the factories, container ships and trucks involved in delivery. Not anymore. At her kitchen supply store in Brookings, South Dakota, Gjesdal has given up stocking place mats, having wearied of telling customers that she can only guess when more will come. She recently received a pot lid she had purchased eight months earlier. She has grown accustomed to paying surcharges to cover the soaring shipping costs of the goods she buys. She has already placed orders for Christmas items
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Laotzu 8/31/2021 10:55:50 AM (No. 899260)
And the Times' solution, no doubt, is more of what caused it. They are that dumb. The More Cow Bell Party.
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It was only 2 years ago that the American economy was a well-balanced machine. Supply and demand. Market-based pricing. Jobs created and filled. Then the communist-democrat party stole the 2020 election(s). This is not rocket science.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
DARling 8/31/2021 11:14:30 AM (No. 899293)
We need computer chips. We don't urgently need pot lids and placemats, and if we want them, we can find them at Goodwill. For that matter, sewing a placemat is not the stuff of rocket scientists. If we quit buying container ships full of stuff that will only clutter our houses, maybe China will come back and deal with America in a more honest manner.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
DVC 8/31/2021 11:19:18 AM (No. 899298)
Don't buy things made in China, ever. Avoid things made overseas. Do your best to purchase American made goods. I have been working diligently at this for a couple of years.
Sometimes the best I can do is find something made in Philippines, but that is a victory if all the others are from China. Sometimes I pay more. At this point, I absolutely don't care about price if I can find Made in USA over China. I needed some shutoff valves to install a new kitchen faucet. I found made in USA, and was pleased to pay a couple of dollars more than the Chinese ones.
We need to support our own industries with our purchases.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
planetgeo 8/31/2021 11:45:02 AM (No. 899348)
Welcome to Soviet America, comrades! Is like old times in USSR. Rationing and lines coming soon for food. Democracy dies in Democrat governance!
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Sandpiper 8/31/2021 12:01:58 PM (No. 899388)
Invariably when I find something is unavailable it can be traced back to some part that needs to come from China, and not just chips. I wonder if it’s by design.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
judy 8/31/2021 12:12:45 PM (No. 899401)
NY Times…one suggestion you missed…..Stop voting for Democrats..
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
TXknitter 8/31/2021 12:13:58 PM (No. 899402)
We have to carry our values to shopping. My HEB is full of foods with deceptive labelling (thank you Congress) and foreign produce. It is hard to even tell where a lot if it actually originated and this is purposeful. Buy local and you have to be wise even about that. Get stocked up. I bet ya our local grocery store managers are doing it as we speak. I saw more holes than usual on the shelves yesterday. It was truck day too.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
formerNYer 8/31/2021 12:26:07 PM (No. 899424)
Under comrade xiden we are having Soviet style shortages.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
red1066 8/31/2021 1:00:31 PM (No. 899489)
The stores on occasion remind me of photos I use to see of the old Soviet Union back in the 60's. Shelf after shelf with nothing on them.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
DVC 8/31/2021 1:33:18 PM (No. 899542)
Part of the chaos, which is the goal of this whole Dem-panic bioweapon attack.
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My personal experience: the United States is no longer a country that works. We have lost our efficiency. We are no longer "can do." I have noticed this in my supermarket, furniture store, attempts to get service people to come to my house and the post office.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
john56 8/31/2021 2:53:15 PM (No. 899622)
COVID has been the perfect storm for the supply chain. For many years, American business ran on the "just in time" inventory stocking idea. When the last one goes out the front door, the next one comes in the back door. And hey, it works most of the time. A hickup her, a snafu there, but pretty well works.
But then when factories, domestic and internationally, start closing; raw materials are hard to find, labor shortages (especially in trucking and warehousing; I work for a company who could easily hire 400 or more warehouse workers, not to speak of delivery drivers).
Customers ask me when we will have items in stock. My answer is that although we show ETA dates, I subscribe to the Apostle Thomas theory of inventory. When I see it in the warehouse, I'll believe it is there.
And when things are gone (out of stock) and customers ask really nice -- please help me find something, I know you got something hidden, I remind them that even Jesus Christ had five loaves and two fishes before he started, and I'm not that good.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Califedup 8/31/2021 4:23:58 PM (No. 899739)
One supply chain shortage I would be grateful for is newsprint paper and ink. No more NY Commie Slimes Propaganda.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
homefry 9/1/2021 7:47:58 AM (No. 900369)
In Russia, we wait for bread. In America, bread waits for us.
Yakov Smirnoff
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The Merry Marxists are destroying the global economy and any personal wealth held by other than the ruling elite. Getting accustomed to shortages is good training for when it turns out there's nothing at the end of the long bread line. We'll simply need to make do with less, and we'll like it. All torn from the pages of Atlas Shrugged.