My Wives National Company Is Limiting Purchase Quantities.. The Reason Might Just Surprise You.

I was once at an outlet store on Black Friday and some Asian Ladies were filling grocery carts with hand bags and leaving the store with them, cart after cart. I'm sure those bags didn't end up in THIS COUNTRY.

I think it is important, going forward, for producers to sell things to people for use internal to their own countries. Before exporting. (this goes for houses and properties and even for entire businesses)

And, as buyers, we should, as never before, be buying from our own countries.

Vote with your wallet for nationalism vs globalism.

What if they held a one world government and nobody played along?

Last Edited by Eilonwy on 11/18/2021 12:10 PM

We don't have decades left.

We (America) actually used to process stuff to export it.. Now they don't even process here.. Now just load (plunder) unprocessed trees (raw materials) and ship it direct to Chinese consumers. All why Americans are forced to pay outrageous prices for the left over scraps..



Last Edited by Non Attorney Spokesperson on 11/18/2021 12:15 PM

But don't get misled: most of Mexico is not like the US border towns such as Tijuana and Juarez. They're only semi-Mexican and their business is the border.

When we used to visit Mexico we never stopped at border towns, always drove an hour or two into the country.

Last Edited by oniongrass on 11/18/2021 12:30 PM

No, it doesn't surprise me at all.

There is a large national retailer that had electric throw blankets on sale this month. I mean it was a really great price! They sold out in stores and online almost immediately.

This large retailer usually orders unique colors and patterns for seasons, so it's fairly obvious what's happening. People are buying them all up immediately and selling for double.

I'm seeing those same blankets showing up on Ebay and Walmart Marketplace for much higher prices. It's not just one or two blankets. Most of the sellers have all of the same colors and patterns in stock. One seller shows 308 blankets sold (at almost double the original sales price) and they still have stock to sell.

Is the problem for the glut at the ports that every store ordered like 15% more merchandise because of last year's run on things?

15% from every store adds up fast

I think if you really need something just
ask around.

With all that shoplifting that’s been going on
You would think they’d be selling it discounted.
On the corner or something.

I get pop up ads for perfume. Jewlery and handbags.
That I’ve never gotten before.

I was thinking some of this stuff
has been heisted.

+1

Why do they feel there's such a high demand for brick and mortar?

I was in the Wal-Mart next town over from us the other day.....ONE ENTIRE ROW of frozen section was roped off....EMPTY!

No frozen veggies and whatever else goes in that section. The freezers looked like they were operational - I didn't open the doors and check to see if they were....they had yellow tape - like police tape? Across the front of the doors, indicating they didn't want you to open them.

Even the next aisle over, frozen foods was NOT overflowing with stuff. You would think they would be, to make up for being one aisle down to display product. NOPE. And NO frozen veggies in there, either!

I commented (rather loudly) "Where's all the FOOD?!?!?" thinking I could get someone else to come take a look, or explain (if it's their store and they shop there a lot, they might know). Only one woman was close enough to hear me, but she never looked up or acknowledged me or looked over at the aisle I was in!!! Kept her head down, like the cookies she was scrutinizing in the center aisle were SOOO much more interesting!

Wilson is right. I have a friend here in FL who has ALL her dental work done in Mexico. It's actually CHEAPER for her to fly to AZ and drive across the border to a dental clinic there and have her work done than to have a dentist here do it.


How sad is that?!?!

Win

lol

I think the take away for me was.. And you're totally correct to a point, or I should say level.. However it seems to me.. Large multinational corporations raiding other large multinational corporations to keep their own shelves stocked is unprecedented.. It also would suggest that our current supply chain problem (disaster) is in even worse shape than the public believes..


You'd think longshoreman on the east and west coasts refusing to work and unload cargo ships while at the same time threating to kill any scabs or port authority personnel who'd dare too attempt to stop them, would be a major news story~?

Not a peep~!





Last Edited by Non Attorney Spokesperson on 11/18/2021 01:43 PM

I was told that RV America is going across the country and buying all of the lower end RV parks including KOAs.

Other than long time smaller suppliers going out of business because larger suppliers got the goods before they did, and the larger suppliers we've had no choice but to contract with have far, far, inferior products.

As a consumer I've noticed something really annoying:
I go online to order and check the companies inventory on a list of items. Go to checkout to place the order, all of a sudden they are suddenly OUT OF STOCK, on all items,when minutes before they had a large inventory.

Can sort of understand the popular ones, and it's online, but obscure items too? In minutes? When inventory checked was large.

I have done shopping carts and have too coded backdoors to cut the average or some other attribute consumer out in favor of holding inventory for more favorly-attributed buyers - the trigger being a large order by a small consumer.

There are benefits to visiting Mexico for medical and dental - sometimes. YMMV. They also have a far more relaxed attitude regarding purchasing of sexual fulfillment, even though they're a Catholic country. I'm not sure about their attitude regarding drugs - especially the less common ones. I'm sure the US customs would take a dim view of bringing them to the states.

Yes Amazon and various retailers do that in the UK. Which I think is fair enough...leave something for the next person.

This is way to much stuff for that type of thing. What you're describing wouldn't account for as much as what's going on here.

There are warehouses full of merchandise that came from small time operators buying carloads of merchandise and bringing it there to hold until that warehouse ships it. If you google "FBA prep center" and things related to industry, it's pretty big.

Ah well, what the hell do I know? Maybe paying to much for second hand Chinese crap is the wave of the future.

Certain Teed (Saint Gobain company) is raising wall-board products (drywall) 30%.

All other products will go up 10%.


They state that more increases in 2022 are likely.

Raw materials going up and up.

My company has our own warehouse and buys products from other companies to sell to our customers.

Since you said your wife works for a major 'retailer' her company does the same shit. People are sick and tired of shopping at the major retailers and all of her competitors smell blood in the water. I know we do.

rebar as well

I was at Meijer yesterday buying just a few things from the grocery and they had a bunch of items that had signs on them that said limit for I’m talking like pasta and just regular every day items and cat food there was absolutely no canned cat food at all I actually took a picture because I couldn’t believe it

What you're describing is day to day commerce.... What I'm talking about is just for theoretical example.. Lowes sends it's employees in mass to clear out their competitors Home Depots shelves so it can be taken back to Lowes and sold to their customers.. As far as I know~? I don't ever remember the entire Woolworths chain or CVS or even Walmart corporation having empty shelves in mass, let alone walking down the street to clear out their compotators shelves..

Near as I can tell the out of inventory thing was last seen in mass during WW2. And yet the products were still being manufactured only sold to the department of defense or whatever it was called back then to support the war effort.. In my humble opinion comparing what's happening in the supply chain logistics and commerce in America today, to selling shit on ebay or Amazon~? Are people being either being intellectually dishonest or in complete denial about the supply chain clusterfu*c that these dumb asses in Washington have unleashed upon the good people of our nation..





Last Edited by Non Attorney Spokesperson on 11/18/2021 04:21 PM

I read they're expecting 30% increase in chicken and pork..
I'm pretty sure the vast majority of Americans don't even realize what trouble they're in because we've had it so good for so long.. Now~? Americans couldn't recognize trouble if it bit them in the arse.. (lol)

Food gentrification? Oh, come on now. The reason for the price inflation is obvious. We printed trillions of dollars to mostly bail out mid to large companies with some scraps for the proletariat thrown in, then repeated it 3 times. The more money there is, the less it's worth. The less the currency is worth, the higher the prices. To make matters worse, Bonehead Biden stopped the pipeline construction and suspended oil and gas field leasing causing fuel prices to nearly double and those additional transportation costs get passed directly down to the consumer.

Lol you guys.
Always nice to have a little levity in these threads to keep us all from going insane.

Ding Ding Ding... Winner~! Winner~! Chicken Dinner~!

In 2021 USDA paid 1.5X market price for farmers to destroy their crops.. this is the organized subjugation of not only the American people, But the people of the world..

FWIW, I worked at a movie theater in the 90s. We had the soda fountains break down on an opening night and went to the local grocery store and pretty much cleared out their Coke products.

She must work at the Sony Playstation Store.

In the 90's I worked at a Kroger as a bag boy and we missed a shipment of lettuce one time, and we ran out. So they sent some people over to the nearby Albertsons to buy all their lettuce so we would have some and they wouldn't. 90's were a great time