The Supply Chains are Fine

17 Replies to “The Supply Chains are Fine”

1. Look around next time you are shopping. Not only is the stock on the shelves a little sparse in places, there are many feet of empty shelf space in many stores. Some stores try to hide it by displaying everything they have in stock to fill the empty holes. They stock 6 feet of frosted flakes, or fill an entire aisle with a product.
   Sometimes they don’t even have enough stock to do that.

   Look Carefully. Actually see what is happening around you.

   1. Saw it early on in meat products.
      I feed feral cats and buy in bulk.
      Large cans of wet food have disappeared off shelves to be replaced by small tins from only one supplier.
      Same with a whole host of products .
      Occasionally I see the stuff come back in limited quantities and it quickly gets bought up.

2. How about we just stop purchasing anything from the Vanguard group of companies. They are the Kingpin to the world’s economy.

   https://personal.vanguard.com/us/FundsAllHoldings?FundId=0559&FundIntExt=INT&tableName=Equity&tableIndex=0&sort=marketValue&sortOrder=desc&APP=PE

   Buy local and from Mom & Pop stores as much as possible. If you can still find any…

3. Yup, no shortages here as well.

   https://www.rt.com/uk/535782-fuel-shortage-petrol-panic-buying/

   Just limiting everyone’s limit as a precaution.

4. the funny part of this is that toilet paper is one of the last products that is still made locally, rather than shipped half way around the world, and even then they can’t keep it in stock.

   1. If you are stuck at home during a lockdown and still have running water, what’s the urgent need for toilet paper?
      A bidet or bidet attachment, water and soap, seems preferable to scrubbing with a piece of dry, shredded poplar paper.

      1. Better still use Sandy like a real working man https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTvjRyv0c5M

         1. “That’ll sting ya”. Ouch. Pucker factor 6 for that one.

         2. I’m sure many public toilets already use it.

      2. So Zon, do you get a buzz on when using the bidet?

   2. Can’t be made if you don’t have the wood pulp, some of which comes from overseas.

      Last year was a combination of “Everyone lock down!” panic combined with the TP makers needing time to switch their proportion of industrial/business/hospital TP to the generally-preferred thicker household TP in order to reflect the need for much more of the latter. Now we’ve got a shortage of a key production ingredient that will be a large contributor to store shelf shortages.

5. Let another round of hoarding begin, not just from people showing up at Costcos to grab what they’re allowed to grab, but from people going to other stores, a bunch of which may not have quantity limits right now. Down the road we’ll also have another around of plumbers screaming to the skies that only TP is designed to go down the toilet. Not facial tissues, not paper napkins you’d use while eating, not paper towels, and definitely not flushable wipes no matter what the package says.

   Basically anything that is a paper product, even paper itself, is either going to be in short supply or already is. Alarm bells were being sounded in early summer that this was coming. And I can think of about 10 other products that fit under this category besides regular paper and TP and paper towels.

   1. I should stock up on leaves…been a good year for leaves.

      1. A great year for pine cones this year as well. Just saying..

6. Use dryer sheets. Not only will you butt smell good, it will take the wrinkles out of your old ass.

7. The TO star sounds like it could find real value!

8. Planned shortages, people.