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Post by Beerwiser on Dec 24, 2021 14:59:11 GMT -6
I guess there are no shortage of spam to go around. Obviously he should have picked a different thread lol.
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Post by Oatking on Dec 25, 2021 11:31:22 GMT -6
Its hard to know for sure what is going on in China right now , but based on the non severity of this cold going around the China companies who are either shut down or working at a snail pace have to be ordered to stop production by Chinese officials in the sole effort to penalize first world countries who capitalize on cheap goods. Its an amazingly smart tactic by XI to disrupt our trade and capitalistic economy. Disguising it as a pandemic has fooled so many it is laughable.
I ended up canceling my bike and buying a new chief off the showroom floor a few weeks ago as the wait times have some guys waiting 8 months or more. I have also heard the bikes that do arrive are missing parts or are put together poorly or have broken parts after a few miles on the bikes. Quality is in jeopardy. Least I got to sit on my bike , start it up and see how it ran and handled the best I could in the winter. The bad news is I ordered a few goodies for it and they may be awhile to arrive. Getting the 5 inch mid rise handle bars to make the super chief limited feel like a bobber.!
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Post by SWMan on Dec 28, 2021 0:17:38 GMT -6
Spoke with someone who works at a box store in the city, he said they are running about 30% of normal inventory right now. Not a great place to be at through the holiday shopping season, had to send away lots of people without what they came for this year. He noted that much of what they sell comes from China and nobody would be worse off without it, but the fact remains that things are tight. He also noted that he sees similar tactics like items not as deep on the shelf being employed at other stores as well. Said the last trick is to make the aisles wider...ha ha, if you see that happening look out!
Also the place I normally get glyphosate at told me last week and they can't get and can't guarantee a price even if they sold me something. So basically won't sell me any was the story at the moment. Not sure what to make of that.
Oatking smart move to buy the bike that is on site. It seems if you want to order something it's a year give-or-take for equipment now, and a lot can happen by then.
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Shortages!
Dec 28, 2021 10:45:13 GMT -6
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Post by cptusa on Dec 28, 2021 10:45:13 GMT -6
Can't get things to service Ranger or ATVs right now. Apparently filters and CV boots are non existent.
I'm using no roundup next year (plan for now). Retailer has it in inventory for $58/gallon I believe. Ridiculous for a product that works only on grass.
Taco shells. That's the big shortage here now. Can't get big ones at all so wife been getting smaller ones. These are soft shells. I can deal with a lot buut ghis one is really crimping my style.
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Post by Oatking on Dec 28, 2021 12:35:58 GMT -6
Do you think this will kill the big box stores like walmart , cabelas, or even auto dealerships? Looks like online purchasing is the future even with buying the farm truck! I dont like it , but with limited supply how does a company fairly distribute products evenly across its network and wait for sales or redistribute at that point. At john deere a new tractor on order is into 2023 if lucky. capt usa was lucky to find a new Massey for the work season! I still have not got my new 4630 monitor back which I lent out to my deere dealer last spring. GPS products are still slim pickings!
Where or which countries make the micro chips used in so many electronics now a days?
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Post by northernfarmer on Dec 28, 2021 13:20:52 GMT -6
I've speculated that if any stores will close ( and they have ) are the small stores or perhaps they are the first to lack the restocking to force them to close so that big box stores will have full control of what goes on, again just speculating. And beyond that, yes ordering online assuming its even possible to get the item. But as you can see its easy to totally cripple a country, cut off supply of goods to keep the wheels turning and starve the population with less and less food, and farmers can't raise a crop without equipment and so on. Mesh that with rising costs for any goods and lack of jobs, it won't take long for the landscape to look like walking anywhere near Chernobyl. Hopefully I have my outlook completely wrong but watching any futuristic movies with earth as a wasteland of what was, often Hollywood productions come true and perhaps there is a source for the story-lines that know what "they" are going to do which will cause it to become true in the future. When a country has evolved in such a way that it no longer produces the products from the ground up to sustain itself but rather rely on other countries to do that for you, cutting the supply results in a pretty quick death.
Ag days not happening for the second year in a row, it only exists because of the farmers who had buying power but will become the peasants of the future.
Sports teams, they produce exactly nothing and draw off of the population to keep playing their games and when no one can afford to pay for the entertainment there is no reason to have sports, Olympics included.
We will see some years from now if statements like this are completely false or do end up having some merit.
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Post by Oatking on Dec 28, 2021 14:59:54 GMT -6
cant argue with that northernfarmer, very true . I kind of wondered if this past growing year was bumper , what kind of shipping problems would be happening. I would assume grain companies and railroad companies have problems with part shortages and reduced labor.
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Post by SWMan on Dec 29, 2021 0:07:43 GMT -6
Have others noticed that there is some stuff you just can't find in a store, but it is available online? For example today I was looking for something today at a store an hour away, so I checked their website and said they had two...great I wanted two of them. So I called and turns out they only had one, but it said there was 7 in the warehouse. I asked him if they could just bring another one in and I come get them when ready? He said he could not access those because it was the "online warehouse" and his warehouse had none. I asked a couple of different ways but he said only way was for me to buy them online(sale ends shortly). He could have brought one from another store but said that was likely 4 weeks away or more.
So it would appear to me that these large companies are not concerned about traffic through their bricks and mortar stores, they are happy to sell by credit card online and rely on a woeful shipping system that is more over-loaded every day.
Also interesting to look at what is not in short supply, especially when such a shortage exists in an industry like micro-chips for example. Some tech rolling out at record pace even...
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Post by Oatking on Dec 29, 2021 9:45:43 GMT -6
I wondered about that tech stuff too! Are fancy high priced tech 5g phones and such in short supply or any cell phone for that matter.? I am thinking if there was a cell phone shortage the worlds would end pretty fast! oh no. How else could the government sent out its marching orders?
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Shortages!
Dec 29, 2021 12:08:32 GMT -6
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Post by carlos on Dec 29, 2021 12:08:32 GMT -6
When I went to get my new phone 2 weeks ago, there were no new iPhone to be had in any prairiemobile locations in saskatoon. Lady ahead of me in line stormed out muttering to herself! I happened to get my android though!
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Post by kenmb on Dec 29, 2021 12:21:55 GMT -6
Here is my tid bit on availability. In Winnipeg now but thought it would be nice to add some more Yolink temperature sensors for the house and shop to check in and see if there is a heating problem while away. So placed an order around Dec 10th and paid extra for the expedited shipping. That was to be 4-5 day shipping but probably for continental US, didn't actually check what shipping is to Canada. Anyway, items were packed and at USPS in a day or ordering. The latest update I pulled off the USPS website this morning is that they are still in California. USPS has always been very fast an efficient. Now, not so much.
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Post by kenmb on Jan 3, 2022 12:17:55 GMT -6
Latest update on my package is it left Las Angeles depot Dec 31. I wonder it will exit Commifornia this week. Talking a box about 12" square I would guess so not complex logistics. Pretty hard to estimate parts delivery when the postal service needs +3weeks to move a package within one state.
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Post by kevlar on Jan 3, 2022 16:33:03 GMT -6
It makes you wonder what’s actually going on with the supply chain. I can see issues where they can’t get supplies or parts, but to simply ship something that already exists, there should be no issues. Or are there that many people not working that there is a shortage of labour? I know what the news is claiming, but what is the real reason for Kens example?
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Post by kenmb on Jan 3, 2022 20:03:54 GMT -6
Two things come to mind: 1) government - in this case the postal service 2) Commiefornia
Much like the government has created a long list of societal breakdowns to "combat covid", similar problems are built into supply chains at other levels. While I don't know how specifically life in California is effecting the postal service I would suspect some kind of local factors are being created to slow things down such as the postal service. I have a small package that came from Quebec via mail in about 8 days. Shipped Dec 21, got delivery notice on 31st, post office closed today so will have my hands on it tomorrow.
Government says it Xan regulate the earth temperature to 2 deg C but can't figure out how to ship a package out of a state. Kind of makes a guy wonder which problems / solutions are real.
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Post by SWMan on Jan 3, 2022 23:17:38 GMT -6
I think in Canada it was around 25% of the postal employees that never came to work Dec 1st(might have been more I'd have to check) because of the vax requirement. Honestly I'm surprised how well things are still running at Canada Post through a pretty busy season! My wife has a parcel that seems to have gone missing, I bet Ken gets his before ours shows up...ha ha Similar gov't regulations are impacting the trucking and other industries as well. If you were trying to intentionally ruin an economy it would be harder to do that better than what is currently taking place, I suppose they could raise taxes some more...
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