supply chain problems. I will bet most people here can't find this or that product anymore

[Baron Von Murderpaws]

As long as grocery stores are open and restaurants aren't shutting down..............there is enough food available for everybody.

When it gets bad enough for stores and restaurants to shut down.........THEN you need to fucking worry.

 

[insolent imp]

I ran out of kethup last week and needed more. Went to Dollar Tree, and they have a HUGE shelf packed full of Heinz ketchup.
And it's the big squeeze bottles too, not those dinky little travel sizes.

I bought two bottles, since they didn't have any Del Monte.

my old lady eats ketchup on ketchup. to run out is unthinkable.

 

[Baron Von Murderpaws]

I usually get store brand.

I bought store brand until Dollar Tree started carrying name brand products.
I was so happy when they were carrying Del Monte. I like their brand.

But it's been nice, since Dollar Tree has started carrying name brand stuff, I don't have to pay those outragious price gouging amounts at the grocery stores on a lot of stuff anymore. Especially since they put in a freezer section.

 

[Baron Von Murderpaws]

my old lady eats ketchup on ketchup. to run out is unthinkable.

I have some cousins that used to do that when they were younger.

 

[Moonglow]

You think there are shortages? Try being poor from bad health for a decade and then get back with me.

 

[insolent imp]

You think there are shortages? Try being poor from bad health for a decade and then get back with me.

right here.

 

[Baron Von Murderpaws]

You think there are shortages? Try being poor from bad health for a decade and then get back with me.

Curious.

Please explain.

 

[BackAgain]

Unless our brain-dead President and his sterling Secretary of Transportation bust a move very soon, we will all be seeing a lot more shortages. The pending rail strike is a very dangerous pending disaster.

 

[insolent imp]

Unless our brain-dead President and his sterling Secretary of Transportation bust a move very soon, we will all be seeing a lot more shortages. The pending rail strike is a very dangerous pending disaster.

that rail strike has been pending for months. it's purely leverage and blackmail to get what they want.

 

[BackAgain]

that rail strike has been pending for months. it's purely leverage and blackmail to get what they want.

It’s a 12/7 deadline.

Most strike threats are used as leverage and are akin to blackmail.

 

[JoeB131]

but if you can't ship then all the warehouses back up.

Um, okay, that was stupid.

 

[insolent imp]

It’s a 12/7 deadline.

Most strike threats are used as leverage and are akin to blackmail.

I remember a similar situation with the air traffic controllers going on strike. as I recall it didn't end well for them.

 

[JoeB131]

I remember a similar situation with the air traffic controllers going on strike. as I recall it didn't end well for them.

Or the middle class as a whole... but never mind.

You really are a stupid person, aren't you?

 

[DudleySmith]

Nearly every product line is dominated by only a couple of companies or just one, and with no competition there is no fear of losing shelf space, especially since WalMart as effectively taken over many suppliers; they can make more money by just stockpiling stuff and raising prices, and make out like bandits, pun intended. Same with oil companies and every other industry. Americans are mindless consumers and too stupid to do without for a day or two, instant gratification being their primary life focus.

 

[BackAgain]

I remember a similar situation with the air traffic controllers going on strike. as I recall it didn't end well for them.

I love Ronald Reagan. I used to know a court clerk who had previously been an air traffic controller. He hated Reagan.

 

[22lcidw]

Or the middle class as a whole... but never mind.

You really are a stupid person, aren't you?

What stinks about this is the money voted in by the Progs for Rail gave the employees the gumption to do this.

 

[insolent imp]

Um, okay, that was stupid.

maybe I should clarify?
my typical week
Friday pickup in Virginia, then pick up in New Jersey.
Saturday morning, delivery of the multiple warehouse pickups in Delaware. load is redistributed to to 50 or so trucks contracted and I'm reloaded with a multi stop load. I have my first of about 15 stops in Lincoln Nebraska on Monday. after multiple stops I finally reach Denver on Wednesday. I finish my offload and rest. if at any point the warehouse can't take the freight then a backup begins. sometimes the warehouse is literally waiting on you to get there so they can load their company trucks and have the product on the shelf that day.

 

[insolent imp]

Or the middle class as a whole... but never mind.

You really are a stupid person, aren't you?

I'm smart enough to recognize a blithering asshole. thanks for pointing it out.

 

[DudleySmith]

The Federal govt. has been training the trucking industry's employees for many decades now, and still does; there must be 30 CDls issued for every truck out there, yet they continue to lie about 'driver shortages n stuff'. Fire the managers, and you get half the problem fixed. Remove the exemptions from Federal overtime laws bennie the govt. handed to trucking companies and you fix most of the other half.

People who put in over a hundred hours a week for 3 to 5 weeks at a stretch and sleep in the back of a truck at well below minimum wage deserve much better pay; if you don't think so just drive yourself to the production plants and pick up your own crap and quit sniveling about how the poor aren't working hard enough and cheap enough already.

 

[insolent imp]

The Federal govt. has been training the trucking industry's employees for many decades now, and still does; there must be 30 CDls issued for every truck out there, yet they continue to lie about 'driver shortages n stuff'. Fire the managers, and you get half the problem fixed. Remove the exemptions from Federal overtime laws bennie the govt. handed to trucking companies and you fix most of the other half.

People who put in over a hundred hours a week for 3 to 5 weeks at a stretch and sleep in the back of a truck at well below minimum wage deserve much better pay; if you don't think so just drive yourself to the production plants and pick up your own crap and quit sniveling about how the poor aren't working hard enough and cheap enough already.

I sold my truck a little over a year after eld because mandatory.