I ended up yesterday at the local Army commissary yesterday (Wiesbaden).
So I walked the aisles and came to realize.....there's about 5-percent of the shelves that are empty.
Milk products....cheese....some detergents....frozen food....Gatorade. You know it's bad when you are in the Gatorade area, and the only flavors left are the crappy stuff that only one-percent of folks will drink.
Logistics mess? Yes, it's reached that level.
This morning, I read through economic news and noticed that there is a potato shortage going on, and it will translate into a potato chip shortage by spring.
Toilet paper? No problem. I suspect that from 2020....there's still people out there with 300 rolls of toilet paper in their basement.
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Here in Hampton Roads, I was in Food Lion and the entire Soda aisle was empty. This aisle runs the length of the store and is normally stacked and packed. Lots of blank areas throughout the store. Talking with the produce guy, he told me that produce is leaving the store as fast as it come in.
Folks on Sunday are once again sharing photos of the empty shelves around their towns and across the country. It’s something of a tradition each week now, since Biden has continued to say there’s problem despite our own eyes seeing it every week.
https://therightscoop.com/no-supply-chain-crisis-tell-that-to-these-empty-shelves-joe-bareshelvesbiden/
I would offer this observation....there are two ongoing crisis points in this. First, there's tons of stuff made overseas and has to be delivered via west coast ports. There are at least five different 'triggers' causing the ports to overflow and lessen their capability of handling incoming/outgoing traffic. Most of these 'triggers' were already noted existing two years ago, before Covid came along...but Covid just expanded those problems.
On the second issue....just moving traffic around the US...truckers will tell you that between payscale for truckers, Covid, frustration with schedules, and extreme regulation...trucking is not at a 100-percent capability.
Even here in Germany...both problems exist to some degree (the port problem, less so).
The Biden White House team, and the Transportation Department are not manned with competent people who can grasp the issues and rectify problems. I see all of this continuing through 2022, and being a crisis topic for Nov mid-terms. Mayor-Pete probably will be encouraged to leave by early 2023, and some former Army/Navy logistics general/admiral will be brought in to resolve this. But the central keys to this....reduce federal regulation (something on Trump can do) and remove California regulation-management from a national commerce strategy.
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