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Off topic but already getting notifications from a few credit cards and PayPal to get Christmas shopping done NOW. Sorry if it was discussed already, didn’t read every comment.
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10-14-2021, 07:46 AM | #113 |
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Noticed this as well. Also, half-way listening to the news yesterday morning, they were discussing shipping date cut-offs for packages. I'll only buy gifts for the boys, the girlfriend and her kids, but don't plan on ordering gifts off the internet this year, but don't expect much to be on the shelves in the coming weeks either. I think I'll whittle figurines for everyone this year, but I don't have the time. Perhaps if I could find someone willing to whittle for me, I could outsource the work. Now to find employess.....oh, shit.....nevermind.
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The talking heads on local NYC TV news are reporting ships waiting off-shore to be unloaded at the NYC/NJ container ship piers. Nothing major like the west coast, but more like a sign that they are operating near 100% of their current capacity.....
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10-14-2021, 08:52 AM | #116 |
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Most definitely. Now let's add Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas. Shelves even more empty and more people getting sick. The storm thickens.
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10-14-2021, 09:04 AM | #117 |
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Okay, I get the environmental aspect but what about the drivers. If CA is not allowing owner/operators to work the ports, what percent of drivers are owner/operators? Could this be part of the issues given that truck drivers are in short supply already? Does this make things worse at the CA ports?
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10-14-2021, 11:49 AM | #120 |
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Yes. Start NOW. I started looking around Amazon a couple of days ago for my daughter after she had picked some toys out of the toy gift book Amazon had sent out. One item I was about to purchase and waited a day was gone. No indication on when it'll be in stock. Other toys are in stock but at outrageous prices. I've already ordered a few toys and not waiting to figure out if those are the ones I really want to package as presents. Figure I can send back the ones I don't end up gifting.
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10-14-2021, 12:44 PM | #121 |
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I would like to add competent employees to my list.
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Other than groceries seeming dramatically more expensive, haven't really noticed a shortage of things.....outside of the obvious like electronics/cars. Thankfully don't need either. With the fiancée and I both working from home permanently, I haven't even had a car since March. I sold it because I had only put 900 miles on it in the previous year.
I am curious what's going to happen to commercial real estate. For instance, they are permanently closing our office on Sunday. We worked from home 2-3 days per week before the pandemic and have been working from since March of last year.......so not that big of a change. Maybe they can try to convert a lot of these spaces into apartments/condos to help with the lack of affordable housing. I do miss going in and just getting to see other people, have little "stop and chats," etc. They have given away the TVs, monitors, ping pong table, etc. |
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Don't know to what extent this can go but my buddy drives over the Sunshine Skyway into Tampa area and said he saw 5-6 container ships all lined up making their way into the Tampa ports
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I'm sure they were already scheduled into Tampa. It is a huge deal to divert a ship to another port and couldn't be done overnight.
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Add pool chemicals to the list. I dunno how much a bucket of chlorine tablets use to cost in the before times, but $200 seems excessive to me. Not to mention like $150 for 25lbs of shock. Also has beef gotten more expensive also? I don't usually do the grocery shopping, but was at Costco for something else and thought maybe I would pick up some steaks... it was like $90 something for a pack of like 4 NY strips.
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Beer prices. Had a yearning for some BS beer to chug after yard work, so ran up to the gas station for a 12 pack of Coors. It is easily 30% more expensive than the last time I bought a 12 pack. It was approaching larger craft beer 12 pack pricing even. (Think Fat Tire or something)
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10-14-2021, 03:09 PM | #129 |
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LOL, I'm not too into popular domestics but European beer still is cheaper than anything brewed in my own damn town, sometimes by half the price. Hows ze German brews in America?
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10-14-2021, 03:27 PM | #130 |
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Right now getting anything in the janitorial wholesale business is difficult. Lead times are longer and trucking is unreliable at best.
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