Workplace supply shortages

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... company that builds vehicles lacking parts now ...
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Outrageous price increases in materials since the coup - 30% and much more in a lot of cases... so much so that my project pricing is now only good for 15 days, as opposed to 90 as has been standard for my entire career.

Telecommunications - very large commercial projects.

Certain tube feeds on back order. Gloves, barrier cream, dressings, all on back order.

Barrier cream is a hard one to get!!

4 price increases this year "normal is one"

Shortages in all areas.

Parts
Chems
Metals

The worst part is the delays, what once would be a two day ship cycle is now 2 or 3 weeks. Some ship dates are early 2022....crazy

Animal feed. Price increases around 30%, when you can get it.

Steel, corrugated iron you can't get at any price.

Bar/Restaurant. Various food stuffs.

janitor at an adult store. mop handles and mop heads are harder to find now

also, vinyl pool liners are very scarce

Operations for a construction company and yes, all trades are seeing shortages and long delays for material.

did lumber prices come down recently after being tripled back in 2020?

Automotive repair parts both OEM and aftermarket having extreme shortages but primarily anything imported

Yes lumber is going down slowly.

I work at the silver industry
Plenty of silver bars lower and lower

Yes. My husband is having a hard time finding parts for his semi-trucks.

Lumber future prices did fall into August but are rising again. We have seen lumber prices down with our vendors but have been told prices may be going up again. All other material are up and have stayed up and delays are very long on some items. Doors and windows used to take 2-4 weeks and now we are seeing timelines 2-3 months depending on the manufacture. Plumbing fixture also have long lead times.

I’m a hospice nurse. We order supplies and have them sent to the patients homes. We have had trouble getting things delivered in a timely manner. Supplies are always out.

LOL. Chick I went to school with is in your industry. Those pool liners are vital.

Now I'm wondering about domestic produced supplies - chemicals and other components to make other products like paper. Wood pulp would be American or Canadian. Most chemicals for processing would be too - paper production has been around for over a century.

It's not just supplies, it's services. EVERYTHING has broken down. You just can't speak to anyone on the phone, nobody answers!

My bank card's about to expire. I haven't received a new one. So I won't be able to shop, or draw cash from a machine. Tried online, just stupid "due to covid" rubbish. Try to phone, endless irrelevant rubbish messages, 1001 options to press number 99 etc, then much later... "due to covid, it may be at least 20 minutes..."

People tell me it's the same with everything. Shortage of HGV drivers: thousands have passed their tests but are waiting up to a year for the authority to issue their licence!

Nobody can see a doctor any more, maybe wait weeks for an online appointment. People dying of cancer because it's undiagnosed.

The whole fucking system is broken.

All glass down here, from bottles to window panes.

Cars and some parts.

I'm keeping 100 cans of cat food for 2 cats in the pantry. A lot of animal products (snacks, feed both wet and dry) are getting hard to find on Amazon. So far Walmart and Petco aren't having trouble that I can see but there's fewer numbers of specific items on the shelves.

Resin, and resin molds.

Dental office orders for 4x4 gauze back ordered. People are going to see Venezuela-type healthcare coming soon. Where medical trays have no sterile liners, gauze, etc…. :(

working from home.

I've also had occasional aspirations to be a Gigilo in my 55 plus community but I'm unable to find 55 plus women who will sleep with me. Lol. Just a lonely guy. That is all.

What is the price of lumber it's hard to believe it grows on trees

My boyfriend owns a screen printing business and he is unable to purchase many colors of ink. Many different colors of t-shirts, and sweatshirts, in various colors and sizes are also out of stock. He’s been having to piece together orders by telling his customers what colors that he is able to buy, in the sizes that they want, because he can’t even buy anything in just the basic colors of white, grey and pink. His distributors are unable to tell him when anything might be back in stock. He has family in Alabama, that also own screen printing businesses, and they are having the same problems so it’s not just limited to the state we are living in.

Global lottery systems looking good. No shortages from my viewpoint aside from employees.

Commercial roofing. Literally all products are petroleum based. Wonder how bad leaky, moldy buildings are to the environment?

LMAO! Yeah, I bet those lottery machines are up and running...

Like here in Oregon when Kate the Commie said any bar offering Oregon Lottery games was deemed an essential business.

Fucking criminals man...

There is a guy in this thread that has access to pool liners maybe talk with him. You will need a hazmat suit.