Shortages and price variations where you are

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n_huffhines said:
Apparently you do because you've been trying to deflect from the point for 30 minutes.
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I haven't deflected anything. I have directly stated that travel does not equal immigration, as you previously stated. I am correct. YOU keep trying to deflect, as usual.
 
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Vol423 said:
I haven't deflected anything. I have directly stated that travel does not equal immigration, as you previously stated. I am correct. YOU keep trying to deflect, as usual.
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I proved without any doubt that it was, in effect, also a restriction on legal workers. You stare a fact in the face and then tell me it isn't so.

Ignored.
 
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n_huffhines said:
I proved without any doubt that it was, in effect, also a restriction on workers. You stare a fact in the face and then tell me it isn't so.

Ignored.
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Travel is different than a work visa. Anyone wanting a work visa already faced restrictions. The travel ban doesn't add to that. Someone wanting a work visa already had to go through an approval process. Nothing changed. They still have to go through an approval process.
 
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Rasputin_Vol said:
There has been a chicken wing shortage in this country since this past February. The local meat market that I normally buy my wings from hasn't had a steady supply since the Super Bowl. It has slightly improved over the last few weeks, but between March and July/August, it was hit or miss going in that place.
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How you supposed to feed yo family?
 
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utvols88 said:
Boxed applejuice is always an empty shelf.

Lunchables has an issue every other week.

It appears retail is not interested in keeping up with holiday decor inventory. They get what they get and if it's out then that's that. Target was already putting Christmas decor on clearance to replace with bulk order of trending toys on December 10th. I find that odd. Halloween was the same. A week before Halloween, home Depot already turned that section over. In 2019 and prior, it was the day after the holiday that this occurred.

The obvious restaurant issues, expecting chicken to disappear.

Wings have no business being the price that they are and I've given up buying them.
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The price of wings have gone up significantly over the last 5 to 7 years. So that's not a recent issue.
 
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VolFaninFla said:
Price of shipping containers has increased so much that a low price/low profit product like baskets are not feasible to import.
Flip flops likely the same.
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Fortunately most of the product I need from overseas (catalysts for gas purification) comes from Germany. I was selling Chinese-made molecular sieves, which used to be in good supply in Houston, no lead time at all. But that dried up months ago so I had to switch to a higher priced material. Paid double for US-made and then ordered a couple pallets additional from Germany for the first time. That was in May and it’s due into Houston this month. My biggest user on the sieves is a WM landfill gas plant that orders every 3 months and I’ll be dammed if I fail them.
 
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volinbham said:
Large scale problems are never the sole fault of a POTUS or even series of POTI. That said, it is appropriate to critique the handling of said problems and assess if policies are helping or hurting. I'd say it's fair to say Biden's policies have depressed the labor market (mandates, union push), and have inflationary impact (actual and push for more major government spending, continuing tariff regime, depressing energy supply and discouraging fossil fuel development).
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I heard a couple minutes of an interview with Larry Kulow driving in my truck the other day. He characterized Biden’s energy policy as a War on Fossil Fuels. I’d say he got that right.
 
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When supply chain issues are resolved and employment situation stabilizes, will prices then go down? I don't think so. I think the current inflation won't be given back, as it were. The rate moving forward may subside. But you aren't going to see a lot of these price spikes reverse themselves.
 
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lawgator1 said:
When supply chain issues are resolved and employment situation stabilizes, will prices then go down? I don't think so. I think the current inflation won't be given back, as it were. The rate moving forward may subside. But you aren't going to see a lot of these price spikes reverse themselves.
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I’m not so sure about that. Over the years, I’ve seen paper prices go up dramatically and then come back down even lower. I think that consumers can affect prices by buying or not buying products. Companies may be forced to lower prices if the consumer votes with their wallet
 
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I mentioned the other day going to a Taco Bell to find out it closed a 4pm due to having no night shift and then went to little Cesar’s around 7 to realize they were closed.

Off the top of my head I can’t think of a lot of products I’ve been missing. But honestly most of my comes from a meal prep company (flex pro) and I don’t shop in stores often
 
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lawgator1 said:
When supply chain issues are resolved and employment situation stabilizes, will prices then go down? I don't think so. I think the current inflation won't be given back, as it were. The rate moving forward may subside. But you aren't going to see a lot of these price spikes reverse themselves.
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You see it in other products all the time. Gas being the most obvious.
 
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lawgator1 said:
When supply chain issues are resolved and employment situation stabilizes, will prices then go down? I don't think so. I think the current inflation won't be given back, as it were. The rate moving forward may subside. But you aren't going to see a lot of these price spikes reverse themselves.
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Supply chain resolution is very far out. Just getting inventories back up to pre Covid levels seems years off in many industries, right now.
 
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lawgator1 said:
That's different because the competition model is dissimilar from two or three providers. Instead it's dozens
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Idk if I’m following you. The competition model of what specifically is dissimilar? What are you saying only has 2-3 providers
 
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lawgator1 said:
When supply chain issues are resolved and employment situation stabilizes, will prices then go down? I don't think so. I think the current inflation won't be given back, as it were. The rate moving forward may subside. But you aren't going to see a lot of these price spikes reverse themselves.
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Well, part of the reason why prices won't go down is because of all of the money printing counterfeiting that the government and Federal Reserve has been doing. You have an infinite amount of money chasing a finite supply of goods and services.
 
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Small bottles of apple juice very hard to find, son doesn't like generic. Also hard to find kroger boiled custard as opposed to eggnog, son says purity tastes funny, also hard to get low sodium oyster crackers.
 
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lawgator1 said:
When supply chain issues are resolved and employment situation stabilizes, will prices then go down? I don't think so. I think the current inflation won't be given back, as it were. The rate moving forward may subside. But you aren't going to see a lot of these price spikes reverse themselves.
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Has oil always increased in price? Is lumber never going to drop in price once all mills are back online?

I used to price commodities and it happened all the time. Threats of a copper or steel shortage would send prices up and then drop when the stabilize.
 
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Rasputin_Vol said:
Well, part of the reason why prices won't go down is because of all of the money printing counterfeiting that the government and Federal Reserve has been doing. You have an infinite amount of money chasing a finite supply of goods and services.
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Suppliers cannot produce at capacity right now. Labor and material shortages. On top of that their warehouses are empty. Every widget coming off the assembly line is like a pizza coming out of the oven with 10 different hungry customers standing around to bid on it. Prices aren’t dropping anytime soon.
 
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