Supply chain issues from an insider.

And that’s because the Fed lowered rates when a Democrat is in office.

If you think it’s for any other reason then you are a fool.

Co operate with China,, now I know you are a tool.

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THIS

My wife is the cashier supervisor at or local Home Depot and said pretty the same, no shortages, as of yet anyway.



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I thought he was being rude.
Like "bulked" was a euphemism.

Just ordered another refrigerator. Old one working fine for now, but the supply(s) could certainly dry up. In the meantime, plenty of room in the utility room for an extra "beverage cooler".

Flip, flop, flip, flop.

I'll chime in with my intel.

I'm a buyer for a smallish store in NY state. I talk to and buy from say 20 main vendors.

These people are telling me that they themselves have been hoarding materials..ie glass for picture frames, clay for mugs etc.

There are also supply issues with products made in Mexico! Mexico is still in rough shape and a LOT of non-china stuff is made there.

My vendors are also being cleaned out by huge purchases from large retailers like target and walmart who themselves are trying to back stock inventory.

One lady told me its like the run on TP we saw except with finished goods...and its the box stores buying it all up.

Many vendors are cancelling gift show appearances and closing showrooms permanently. Just read that e-mail last week.

Also wharehouses can only have say 1 or 2 picker/packers to fill orders due to "social distancing" guidelines. That alone is slowing down shipping times to retailers drastically.

EVERYBODY is spooked and is generally going day by day. The gist is that the retail engine is running on fumes.

I'm a forum regular I'm just signed out to stay anon.

I work on forklifts so I'm in a lot of warehouses.

Some food warehouses are getting low , others are jammed.


The economic shutdown has slowed the sales of some items and created shortaged of other items.

Theres no rhyme or reason to it.

Like there's a shortage of Gatorade and a massive oversupply of potato chips.

The shutdown created these huge distortions in supply and demand, changed peoples eating habits, and inventory levels are all over the place.



BTW Forklifts and the material handling industry are leading indicators, we always know what economy will be in 6 months.

We are the first thing industry cuts back on when their revenue drops, and the first thing they invest in when they are looking to expand.


We are swamped.

Sales , rentals and service numbers are way up.

It will be a fairly intense and rapid recovery.

Because she doesn't see it doesn't mean its not happening. Ask her to get reporting on inventory holdings from last year and compare to this year.

Won't even matter after the Gates vaccine!

Their sales are up over last year sales.



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just shuffling the deck chairs.

how bout treated 4x4's?

talking about inventory - not sales.

Lowes and Home Depot sell all of that Chinese shit. My husband sells flooring but only Made in USA flooring, and he is selling gangbusters lately. This is short-term pain for long-term gain to build back our manufacturing base and independence. Fuck China.




Wal-Mart is remodeling stores because they are going to try to transition shoppers to the online delivery and pick-up services. They are going to use those Supercenters as local warehouses for the online orders. This is comparable to how Amazon is building all of these fulfillment centers in the suburbs. I have noticed empty stock for both online Wal-Mart and Amazon, and - especially on Amazon - these items are always Chinese shit.

Switch to Brazilian imports. They have everything we get from China, but without the atheists.

An insider?

Yeah....okay bud.

Shit is unbelievable. The fucking audacity...

People have enough plastic garbage from China that the sheep can go a few month to a year without buying anything. Maybe then we will learn to not consume so much shit and perhaps save for a rainy day.

Those are the BEST. They better not run out of those

maybe the lack of cooperation is just a distraction.

Same here. This Walmart where I live redid the whole refrigerated section so it looks a bit more crowded. The meat section now carries more things like big boxes of corndogs and what passes as frozen burritos.....fish sticks that are more stick than fish....you get the drift.

I have been ordering heavy supplies like big containers of water and lots of cat litter from a local store so they can carry it up the stairs in 117 degree heat. I needed some drain cleaner. ALL drain cleaners were 'maybe there, maybe not', and there was a limit of two. I guess everybody staying at home all day is hard on the drains. Whatever. I keep buying. Stuff is going to get hard to find again, so I never stopped buying since the first time. Still waiting on my large order of MRE's. It's only been 2 months and they still aren't ready to ship it.

Exactly. Covid brought the global supply chain to a screeching halt. It shouldn't be shocking that we're now dealing a lack of goods that were largely supplied by China.

Many didn't realize just how much of what we depend on for food, entertainment, technology, industry and medicine is supplied by China.

This is what happens when you base nearly your entire supply chain in another country and then have a worldwide disaster. As bad as it's been, we're honestly lucky that the crisis we have to deal with is a pandemic and not an all-out war.

I know for a fact that only 25% of normal freight volumes are moving basically across the board.

Thank you for that. I hope the gun manufacturers go back to work soon.

First hand account. Went to Lowe's to pick up 1X4X8 for baseboardproject.

They had none. Salesman said they hadn't received a lumber shipment in weeks.

Had to go to Home Depot. Notice I said had to.