Biden administration struggles to fix ailing supply chain

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stgislander said:
My stocking distributor has 9 converters in stock. Unfortunately they do not have the DIN rail mounting clip. They checked with the factory, and the factory is quoting 36 weeks to get a cheap piece of plastic to slap on the back of the converter!
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Zip Ties ........
 
Sneakers

Sneakers

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I've noticed some flavored cream cheeses have been unavailable, now a news report says regular cream cheese is in short supply in NY, with bagel store owners crossing state lines to get enough.

A bagel without a schmear? Sacrilege.....
 
Crabcake42

Crabcake42

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Sneakers said:
So here we are months later, and there are still a lot of things missing from shelves. I've mentioned light cream before, still not widely available. I can find a container here or there. Interestingly, heavy cream and half/half supplies are good. Today a few other things caught my eye... printer paper. The supply of printer paper in Staples was very poor, lots of empty spaces, very few choices. Went to various stores looking at holiday lights. Almost all gone. Places like Odd Lots that always have huge supplies are just about sold out. Same at Lowes and Michaels. I attribute that to the que'd up tankers off the coast. If you've waited to get things, you're probably way too late.

Discouraging. But on the other hand, it does make you think about necessity. Do we really need all those things and over-stock on supplies? Can we do better with less? Are we surviving? Spending less on crap?
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I think there is a bit of hysteria going on here, for my entire life there has always been at least something low or short supply at the store. What are you even using light cream for? I’ll look for it the next time I’m out, been grocery shopping for many many decades and never needed it. But I’m sure it’s out of you don’t see it, but you know it’s also not sitting on some tanker in the Pacific Ocean.

new cars are still impossible to get, I’m actually disappointed not seeing all the Lexus and Acura Christmas commercials this year, hopefully they are back next year, always made it feel like Christmas to me. 🎄
 
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Crabcake42 said:
I think there is a bit of hysteria going on here, for my entire life there has always been at least something low or short supply at the store. What are you even using light cream for? I’ll look for it the next time I’m out, been grocery shopping for many many decades and never needed it. But I’m sure it’s out of you don’t see it, but you know it’s also not sitting on some tanker in the Pacific Ocean.
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Light cream is what used to be called table cream. Mostly used for coffee, and has more fat than half and half. In other words, it tastes good, unlike half and half which is more like water.

I use it to make White Russians. Heavier cream usually puts sweaters on my teeth, which I dislike.

Edit to add: don’t really know what the shortage issue is with this in particular. The supply chain issues have as much to do with moving products via tractor and trailer as they do container ships sitting in the oceans waiting for an opportunity to be unloaded.
 
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herb749

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Crabcake42 said:
I think there is a bit of hysteria going on here, for my entire life there has always been at least something low or short supply at the store. What are you even using light cream for? I’ll look for it the next time I’m out, been grocery shopping for many many decades and never needed it. But I’m sure it’s out of you don’t see it, but you know it’s also not sitting on some tanker in the Pacific Ocean.

new cars are still impossible to get, I’m actually disappointed not seeing all the Lexus and Acura Christmas commercials this year, hopefully they are back next year, always made it feel like Christmas to me. 🎄
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The difference this year is Santa is driving a truck instead of a luxury car .
 
Sneakers

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Crabcake42 said:
I think there is a bit of hysteria going on here, for my entire life there has always been at least something low or short supply at the store. What are you even using light cream for? I’ll look for it the next time I’m out, been grocery shopping for many many decades and never needed it. But I’m sure it’s out of you don’t see it, but you know it’s also not sitting on some tanker in the Pacific Ocean.
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My gawd, your reading comprehension sucks.
I said light cream is in short supply, not out, and I also said I manage to find what I need. Did you miss that? Apparently. And if you were paying attention, the tanker backup was directed at the Chinese produced products, specifically Christmas lights. Of course light cream doesn't come from an ocean-going tanker, you idiot.
And I don't give a rat's ass if you don't use, never heard of and don't care about light cream. Just because you don't use it doesn't mean the rest of the world doesn't. I don't give a rat's ass about you, but you, unfortunately, exist.
 
LightRoasted

LightRoasted

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Crabcake42 said:
I think there is a bit of hysteria going on here, for my entire life there has always been at least something low or short supply at the store. What are you even using light cream for? I’ll look for it the next time I’m out, been grocery shopping for many many decades and never needed it. But I’m sure it’s out of you don’t see it, but you know it’s also not sitting on some tanker in the Pacific Ocean.

new cars are still impossible to get, I’m actually disappointed not seeing all the Lexus and Acura Christmas commercials this year, hopefully they are back next year, always made it feel like Christmas to me. 🎄
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Not meaning to alter the OP's subject. But ....

Speaking of Christmas .... has anyone noticed the full on tilt overplaying of Christmas music immediately starting around Dec 1st. I mean it's everywhere. On every music radio station intermingled with Oldies, Rock, Rap, County, etc., and even at places like Lowes. One can be rocking to Guns N' Roses playing loud on the radio while carefully playing the air string guitar while driving, and the next song immediately played is Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas sung by Frank Sinatra. It started way too early and is to the point, because of its frequency, for me at least, as to saying STFU when anything Christmas comes on, when or I hear it at Lowes. I've always thought, and remember, the getting-into-Christmas-spirit music, started about a week, or so, before Christmas Day. And it doesn't even feel like Christmas, or look like Christmas season near anywhere, (referring to shopping centers, stores). Maybe it's our masters trying to get the serfs to spend money they don't have so they can write economic reports of all the debt spending, ah, spun as positive seasonal retail sales numbers?

I now return you to the regularly scheduled topic.
 
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HemiHauler

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LightRoasted said:
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Not meaning to alter the OP's subject. But ....

Speaking of Christmas .... has anyone noticed the full on tilt overplaying of Christmas music immediately starting around Dec 1st. I mean it's everywhere. On every music radio station intermingled with Oldies, Rock, Rap, County, etc., and even at places like Lowes. One can be rocking to Guns N' Roses playing loud on the radio while carefully playing the air string guitar while driving, and the next song immediately played is Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas sung by Frank Sinatra. It started way too early and is to the point, because of its frequency, for me at least, as to saying STFU when anything Christmas comes on, when or I hear it at Lowes. I've always thought, and remember, the getting-into-Christmas-spirit music, started about a week, or so, before Christmas Day. And it doesn't even feel like Christmas, or look like Christmas season near anywhere, (referring to shopping centers, stores). Maybe it's our masters trying to get the serfs to spend money they don't have so they can write economic reports of all the debt spending, ah, spun as positive seasonal retail sales numbers?

I now return you to the regularly scheduled topic.
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Yep. Usually starts around the same time as the War on Christmas propaganda BS starts in conservative media cliques.
 
GregV814

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well, from now on, It ain't Christmas until we see commercials with gay men kissing, multi-racial couples with Chinese-Euro-African children wearing Yamakas, playing in the snow next to a brand new Honda electric truck with Billi Eyelish stacking firewood.
 
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HemiHauler

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GregV814 said:
well, from now on, It ain't Christmas until we see commercials with gay men kissing, multi-racial couples with Chinese-Euro-African children wearing Yamakas, playing in the snow next to a brand new Honda electric truck with Billi Eyelish stacking firewood.
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Keep your sexual fantasies to yourself, please. Kinda gross.
 
kom526

kom526

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Sneakers said:
So here we are months later, and there are still a lot of things missing from shelves.

Today a few other things caught my eye... printer paper. The supply of printer paper in Staples was very poor, lots of empty spaces, very few choices.
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We use literally tons of printer paper a year and several tons of other types of paper each day and trust me, it is a struggle to keep our warehouse stocked. A lot of print companies closed during the shutdown, which closed a lot of paper mills and so forth. Well, the mills have the raw materials, but not enough employees, from entry level floor sweepers to the OTR drivers to meet demand.

Now, if this damned moron in the WH follows through with the mandatory trucker vaccinations, look for paper to be harder to get since a lot of mills are in Canada,
 
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