Well, I promised an update and compilation — but with 300 comments and counting, I don’t know I can do justice to it.
A few that jumped out;
– I work for a military supplier; we are be told that on some of our crucial parts that Feb. of 2023 is now the ship date.
– For the last six months I’ve been trying to get my hands on a Playstation 5, but can’t find one anywhere due to a semi-conductor shortage.
– I work at a Canadian Tire just outside of Ottawa. Here is a snap shot of some of the things disappearing: Oil and lubricants of all types and viscosity, some auto parts, solar panels and power inverters. That’s just auto parts dept. Auto service: tires are disappearing; all brands. According to the national tire distribution centre, many popular tire sizes and manufacturers are back ordered indefinitely.
– Local garage owner in Saskatoon said his supplier told him that winter tires will be completely gone by end of the month.
– Ag tires too.
– I see all the tricks and symptoms in the grocery stores today – one product fanned 1 unit deep across an entire display to make the shelf look full, but nothing behind it; upside down boxes underneath the produce to make the bin look full; shelves that despite their best efforts have huge gaps and ‘holes’.(downtown Toronto)
– A 10 foot piece of galvanized steel service entrance mast for new electrical service went from 145.00 to 225.00 in 12 months. 12 foot sections are completely unavailable…
– My electrician has had breaker switches on order for over a year now. No word yet.
– lots of reports on unavailability of furniture and windows
– Paint store can’t sell any dark paint, because they are completely out of deep base.
– Wife works in housing industry here in Calgary. Homes are being sold SANS Dishwashers, Microwaves and amid a severe shortage of appliances.
– Cat litter and canned cat food, prescription diet dog and cat food, veterinary pharmaceuticals
– Hockey jerseys
– My local Independent didn’t have potatoes twice this year. Potatoes!
– I run the parts department in a heavy truck shop. We are running low on things like brake drums, light bulbs, and Diesel Exhaust Fluid, as well as electronic sensors and modules…waited three months now for a remanufactured transmission for a Ram 5500, now going on two months for a For Powertrain Control Module for an F450, with no ETA in sight. My supplier for brake drums just got a trailer load, and on top of the price going up about 45%, there was a $90,000.00 “Container Fee.”
– On many of my jobs structural Steel has 9-12 month lead times. Bids on steel will only hold their prices for as little as 48 hours in some cases as the price is so volatile.
– I noticed Retailers here in BC cancelling flyer distributions lately because they don’t have the products listed in them. Inside knowledge.
– I work with close to 100 trucking companies of all sizes. Here’s what I’m seeing…
– I live in Houston, Texas.I work on a food truck. We’ve had trouble getting several items from our suppliers [Sysco and others], including hot fudge, plastic cups and lids, certain sizes of Styrofoam bowls, strawberries, and others.
Go grab a coffee and read them for yourself.
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Reader KW, via email;
I was looking to buy some ABS pipe. It’s the black pipe used for drains and sewers from a home. It’s is completely unavailable in my city in any length with a three inch size. I’m seeing more and more shortages in this town. The same is true for some kinds of electrical breakers.
Your website have a incredible verity of readers from around North America and in a lot of professions.
It would be fascinating for you to set up a comment section when anyone can share their experiences around the country with shortages. I notice that there is less that can be bought in stores. I wonder what other parts of the country are going through?The price of the goods that are available are also going up fast. I guess “the budget balancing itself” and intentionally increased energy prices has led to inflation.
The comments are open for your observations and reports only, and please include your region or city. This is an informal survey – not a debate or discussion. Off topic and link dumps will be deleted.
Update: These comments are quite the read. I’m pinning this post to the end of the day, then will do an update and compilation tomorrow.
Several months ago the National Post talk about the effects of the pandemic on the cycling industry. As an example, a decent mountain bike may require components from 7 different countries with a delay from anyone curtailing production. Essentially, all higher-end bikes to be delivered in 2022 are already sold. In August dealers were putting in their 2023 orders with many getting ready to submit 2024 orders as well.
A. Local NE Arizona Sherwin Williams paint store is short on, yes, paint.
B. Local solar pool heating companies have very long waits for 20-foot sections of 2-inch PVC Schedule 40 pipe.
C. 11-5-21: Pool chlorine tablets and pool muriatic acid are in short supply. Cost of tabs has exploded to $125 for only 25 pounds of chlorine tablets at Home Depot — *if they even have them….*
D. Shelves of cans of spray paint at local Walmart are empty.
E. Cannot find Neutrogena T-Gel coal-tar-based therapeutic shampoo, or the generic stuff, in any local store, including Walmart. Both types used to be plentiful.
F. Local contractors cannot find anyone willing to work — a block wall builder putting up a wall behind our house on another lot said he’s not even answering the phone because he is booked out for months, but is building his walls by himself for lack of help.
G. Cannot find locally, or via online purchase, pistol, rifle or shotgun primers for reloading ammo. Has been this way for months.
H. There was a severe shortage of factory-new ammo too. Then again, 5 million new gun owners in 2020 alone, with 2021 going strong. If each new owners bought only two boxes of ammo, that’s like 15 million boxes of ammo, not to mention existing gun owners, who also buy ammo. 9mm Luger ammo was going for $1/round a while back, *if you could find it.*
Try buying 410 shot shells in either size – went to a gun show – found one box of 25 at the show – $1.25 q shell
Bulk reverse osmosis-purified water dispensed to our own 5-gal bottles at a local store was $1 per 5 gallons. That has increased — after staying the same for 20 years — to $1.50 per 5 gallons.
Doesn’t sound like a lot, but that’s a 50% increase in price — from 20-cents per gallon to 30-cents per gallon.
I’m in the snack delivery business servicing gas stations and small grocery stores in the SE US – we are having a great deal of difficulty getting product to sell – all my fellow competitors say the same. We order 8 to 10 pallets of chips every week and get 3 or 4. The material to make the bags is stuck on a containers waiting delivery.
Stopped by my local Michael’s craft store in Halton Region today. The cheap, Chinese Christmas crap is very slow to arrive. Normally, the aisles would be full of the stuff but they have nothing but some fake trees. I spoke with an employee who said maybe they’ll get a delivery today but staff don’t stock shelves on weekends so perhaps Monday, at best. She also said they didn’t receive their Hallowe’en order until October 30th!
HomeSense had more Christmas inventory than Michael’s but not as much as in years past. One year my husband said it looked like Christmas barfed. I thought that was pretty funny. I couldn’t get over how busy the store was today. Crappy Tire wasn’t much different but Indigo didn’t seem to have any issues with inventory. They had lots of offshore garbage gifts. (Even Moleskine notebooks are now made in China.)
Last year our local grocery store did some rearranging of the aisles which made no sense to me. I said to my husband it’s probably to disguise the fact they can’t keep the shelves stocked. Just rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic.
OntarioKate, what you said.
I’ve noticed some canned goods, ect carefully re-arranged or just missing.
The gaudy shades of pre-Christmas are upon and before Remembrance Day, too.
I was looking for something at Michael’s and could not find it.
Cost of aluminum sheet has gone up between 50% to 100% and many standard extrusions not available.
This is pallets of material from a large national supplier, not just some cutoffs reseller or a machine shop.
Now due to lack of inventory I’m starting to use more costly 6061 alloy rather than 5052.
This is in Winnipeg.
Some specialty 3M industrial tapes are now 75% more costly if available at all.
Also Winnipeg.
Re doing wall outlets and switches in a friends house. Hardware to do it unavailable at either Lowe’s. Ordered it all on Amazon. Job complete.
One company that I’m sure will do well during these times is the auctioneering firm Ritchie Brothers. Each trip I took to and from my house in B. C., I passed by an RB yard, whether it was the one in Nisku, Alberta on my way to the Edmonton airport or the one about 10 minutes drive out of Grande Prairie.
I haven’t been by the Nisku facility since I stopped flying, but, in the past, it didn’t take long after an auction for the yard to start filling up again. I see the same thing at GP, though, because of its location, it doesn’t hold auctions as often.
Much of the equipment is seasonal, so a lot of construction gear’s being sold off right now. But it wouldn’t surprise me if whatever’s there will fetch higher prices because of the scarcity of new stuff.
I’m planning on driving to my house in over a week from now. I might take a glance at what’s happening at the Western Star Trucks yard near Edmonton. It might be interesting to see what new rigs are being produced there.
Full disclosure: I’ve owned Ritchie Brothers shares for more than a dozen years, so my interest in what’s happening at its facilities is more than casual. Still, it serves as a barometer of what’s going on in industry in general.
“But it wouldn’t surprise me if whatever’s there will fetch higher prices because of the scarcity of new stuff.”
Hope so. Have a large lot of working pull worm gear reducers coming up next month at a RB auction. It’d be nice to see a decent cheque in time for Christmas. ‘Course, with MT shelves, there may not be anything to buy…
Over the years of working on settling my father’s estate, I sold a lot of the scrap metal that he had accumulated. When I first started more than 2 years ago, steel was somewhere around $50/ton. Late this past summer, I sold some more and the price was about 3 times higher.
Recently had a few local construction tenders require material purchases up front with the general contractor covering the expense of storing & insuring for a season.
That was previously unheard of except jobs in far north and Nunavut where shipping & winter roads are a factor!
In southern Manitoba.
Salt Lake City, Utah area here. Plastic cups and lids at the fast food places are becoming scarce. Burger place I went to for lunch today had no lids. Pizza joint last Sunday, no lids or cups. Both are mid size chains.
In Tucson this past Wed Starbucks was out of cream cheese. I also noticed that there was not much bacon at Fry’s. Gas was $1.95 in April 2019. This morning it was $3.33. I also noticed that I was earning interest on my small savings account, 1 cent a month.
Another thing I noticed in the grocery stores are the packaging is smaller for various items for same price or highter; mostly snack items like chips, soda pop, etc. These are probably things I should be learning to live without anyway LOL
North Texas… long delays on windows for construction, lumber, and tiles. Lumber prices at least 3-4 times what they were last year for decent hardwoods.
Back in April, I took my 2011 Outback in to the dealer for a new tie-rod. While I was there, I thought I’d check out newer models, so I asked a salesman if they had a demo or a decent used model a year or two old I could look at. He just laughed, and told me they had a limited supply of new vehicles, and used ones were getting as scarce as hen’s teeth. There was a huge backlog of new vehicles deliveries, and shortages in semiconductors have weighed heavily on production. This has since only gotten worse.
The shelves at grocery stores in Arlington VA are out of Diet Coke in cans and continue to be out of many varieties of Gatorade. The store manager told me that the Gatorade is out of stock because the empty bottles to be filled are sitting in a ship off the coast of California.
I live around Stettler/Halkirk, very rural Alberta and I work at a gas station, I overheard my manager talking about how the price of potato chips are going to spike massively in the next few weeks due to a lack of ingredients required to make them
I work a truck dealership in Hamilton, ON and deliver parts to our Mississauga customers (repair and collision shops).
We have 7 full-time drivers and we all deliver between 20-35 orders a day. On average 1 of every three invoices has at least one item that is backordered. I have seen invoices with a dozen backordered items. When I speak to shop owners they all express frustration a that volume of backorders from ALL their suppliers. One persontold me he waited 4+ months for a critical part for a truck repair which meant that truck was out of commission for that time.
I recently heard that we are no longer taking orders for new trucks because we do not have the inventory or access to more inventory. Every truck we have on the lot is spoken for and the number of trucks has dwindled to almost nothing from several dozen in the last 6 months.
The other morning I was speaking with a driver from a local Mercedes Benz dealership and he said they have virtually no new vehicles available and that they are also finding it difficult to find used vehicles to sell.
So, the auto/truck industry is suffering from supply chain issues, too.
If you are on Reddit there’s a sub called “justrolledintothe shop”. They had a post about supply issues affecting things a couple- three weeks ago. Really eye opening about some supply chain problems and repair parts shortages.
went to costco yesterday saw one standing rib roast at $450.00 several others at $300 to $350. Nice looking but?
Quercetin. There was always a row with 2 or three bottles at a local Save-On-Foods’ pharmacy (Vancouver). Not anymore. I think the word is out…
Evidently truckers cannot buy more than 60 gallons at a time, west of Texas. So now we’re having a gas shortage(?) added to other problems in the supply chain.
Chicago, far NW side, Jewel/Osco. About 10 weeks ago
Item: bagged carrots, 1 or 2 lb bags.
Started: about 10 weeks ago
This started very abruptly. One week there were plenty, the next only a few. I shop late Saturday afternoons, and by that time only a few bags remain. Last week I cleared out the remaining bags. I eat a lot of carrots, and I had no choice but to buy a 5-lb bag of *organic* carrots (which were also in short supply).
Note: When the Covid mask rules and other restrictions started in March 2020, *all* the large size bags of regular carrots disappeared.
OK, this is WAY above my spending level, and I’ve never stepped in one of their stores, but Hermes, the designer stores that sell purses, are not getting any more inventory until January at the earliest. What they have they have, and these purses can be thousands of dollars. I was told that the Boston store had one women’s bag, and the rest were men’s, I don’t know, luggage type of things, all in the same color.
Last week I went to Costco and they were out of bacon. I usually bought that bacon for $11 a package, the last time I bought it it was almost $19 a package. No Costco paper towels. Period. Beef at Costco has gone up so much it is unbelievable! For a special occcasion, we might get a filet roast. Not anymore. It used to be $18 a pound and now it is $36 a pound! I had to buy a floor model of a refrigerator this summer so I could get one in stainless steel.
Dunkin Donuts ground coffee has gone up a LOT. It used to be around $13 a can and not it is over $18 a can. And that is at Costco.
No Xmas ribbon at Costco, but they do have wrapping paper now. Just a word of warning, wrapping paper is most likely going to be in short supply. I feel it in my bones that it has to… with all of the other paper shortages.
I was at a Marriott hotel in PA, and the cup that went in the in room coffee pot was the wrong size, and they didn’t have the right coffee pods. They told us how to jury rig what they could get in stock. (It didn’t work for us.) My husband called it sock juice. Worse sock juice than normal.
I usually have left over wrapping paper.
If you can find brown wrapping paper and are craft-oriented, you could beautify your presents.
Just a thought.
At my local Costco north of Houston, TX – the bag of chicken wings that used to be $10 is now $32. My laying hens better watch out! 😉
In South Korea. No noticeable shortages of anything, although inflation is big for gas and U.S.-sourced food like bacon. Now paying about USD1.50 per liter of gas. Was about $1.10 pre-Biden.
Also, it’s very difficult to hire anyone for my small business. Nobody wants to work. Wage inflation is here.
Kate, as an aside, this is a pretty incredible continental-scale review of the shitshow in CanUSA.
It’s been a frustrating year for our friend who is sales manager for a local farm machinery dealer. He has customers who can’t get their new tractors they ordered months ago. Sometimes the manufacturer is short not just the electronic components but tires and hydraulic parts as well are missing to complete the unit.
For quite some time: Topo Chico (the best sparkling water). Preparation H wipes. No relation between the 2 presumably.
In the last few weeks, I have failed to find silicone remover at any of 3 hardware stores, and had to resort to gas station prices for paint thinner, as none of these three hardware stores had any. Also, the 10% cream I like to use in my coffee was sold out last time I went food shopping.
This is in eastern Ontario, about 100 km north of Kingston.
Here’s the situation right from an importer. I import pizza boxes from China. Before you get upset with me, the North American equivalent is 100% higher in cost with minimums about five times greater. I either import, or go out of business. Admittedly, adding up the costs outlined below, the North American products are now less so I’m starting to use them.
I paid $4500USD to ship a container to my door in Calgary last year. From June till August of 2021 this soared up to $18.5K.
A shipment used to arrive on my door in three weeks. Currently, the vessel will wait to load up, then once loaded wait in harbour on the other side about a month, cross in under two weeks, and sit at our harbour for a month. On top of the shipping charges above, for my last container I was charged without notice a $1100USD congestion fee. For this shipment, to get around thee train congestion I paid to have the container unloaded in Vancouver, transferred to a truck, and trucked too Calgary. This cost $5700USD (just went up to $6600USD for each of two containers on the way after a price was agreed upon). After receiving the product and setting my customer’s price, I was handed a $920USD fee because the empty container wasn’t returned in time. My profit just went out the window.
The containers aren’t being returned in time because no one is being told where to return them, because there is no where to return them. All yards are full. The reason for this – the port authority ruled a couple of months ago that only 7.5 hours would be allotted to fill a ship with containers on return – much less than required. As an example, if a ship arrives with 1000 containers only 700 empties may be loaded on return. We’ve run out of room to place them. As a result, they’re going to run out containers at the manufacturer side, which is what started all of this in the first place. I expect container costs to once again go through the roof.
Once my shipment was unloaded in Vancouver a truck driver couldn’t be found to truck it to Calgary. It took them two weeks to find one. By now, I’m running out of stock and I’ve paid over $20,000 USD just to ship $12,000USD of product. Most of this $20k went to a the transport company, who previously could turn a profit at $4500USD.
This is insanity but there is a positive. North American products are competitive again.
All makes one wonder if this is being done on purpose.
Seen that mentioned before about the lack of space for the containers after they’re emptied. Can’t remember exactly but the one example given was in LA (maybe) and they’ve ran out of room and one of the reasons was that they weren’t allowed to stack the empties higher then two high in the off port areas they could use for storage. Gotta love petty regulations and bureaucrats in a crisis.
It’s U$30,000 a can today
A head of iceberg lettuce in Country Grocer in Nanaimo was $6.99 today
Tell you one thing, all of a sudden there’s no shortage of Americans commenting on SDA!
Its cool, say hello/hi/greetings to our fine American conservative friends, joining in here on our Cross Canada yack!
We have similar supply lines, but separate ones. Here on the west coast, Vancouver is a main port, its interesting to see what is and not in short supply.
Calgary: Waiting 2 months, so far, to get the siding replaced on the west side of the house, there are 75 holes, and a new roof. Damage was from a hail storm the size of golf balls last August in SW part of the City.
Price on food has gone up but no trouble finding stuff. Superstore charged $7.22 for 4 navel oranges. I went back with the bill and stickers proving the purchase was for 4 South African grapefruits at a buck each. They promptly reimbursed the $3.22. Went and bought some more grapefruit. What a bargain!
I own a dry cleaner in rural Saskatchewan. Hubby helps manage a contracting company. Certain supplies are definitely out of stock and hard to find now. I can’t even purchase plastic bags to pack my dry clean orders in, they will not be in stock until the end of this month if I’m lucky. Things made with steel are in short supply. Makes doing business that much harder. Good for Terry who can shoot all his own meat. Some of us are trying to keep the economy going.
Hey, Instapundit linked to this post and there’s dozens of similar comments from the States.
I’ve seen shelves emptied of certain foods (canned foods like pumpkin, snacks, ect) and I’ve noticed that meat is going up in price.
The biggest shortage I’ve seen is lumber, ie., for fence posts.
Gas is over $1.30. Never under.
Bulk generic epsom salts have disappeared from stores in the Vancouver area. I’ve checked repeatedly at London Drugs, Wal-Mart, and Shoppers Drug Mart for the last month because I use them for a skin condition. Brand-name scented overpriced bags of them are still avaIlable, but in less quantity and variety.
Thucy…Photography eh..?? What do ya shoot..??
Am Nikon guy:
D750/D90 and buy/clean/sell lenses on Kijiji/Etsy/E-bay and FB when I’m not kicked off for being “Normal”
Cheers
Seems to me the ONLY Things in ABUNDANT Supply are:
Sanitizer in 5 Gallon Pails
Masks of every flavour and size
Pfizer/Moderna VAXXINEs
Media/Govt Disinformation/Misinformation…..and Pure Coercive BULLSHIT ,
Vacuous Karens/Kevins…& their soon to be vaxxed dying children.
Inflation…normal and Hyper
This is the beginning of the GREAT RESET…. The Complete & Utter Destruction of the WEST.
When parts (pcb’s, tires, lubricants etc), that facilitate vehicles movement, are no longer available…?? The Climate Nutters oft wished for end of ICE vehicles will in fact happen….by vastly speeded up attrition.
No cars..?? NO mobility.
Better think about buying a horse – harness it to your Beemer and leave the city…
I am in sales at a electrical wholesaler.
Underground service wire will not be available from my suppliers until spring of ’22.
Electrical flexible(teck) cable in larger gauges is unavailable for 3-4 months.
Standard house residential wire has tripled in price from feb of this year, with many gauges simply not in stock.
Electrical metal pipe has tripled. My suppliers are now offering fibreglass pipe to make up the shortfall.
Standard meter sockets for larger services are out of stock, a combination 200A meter socket + disconnect would have set you back ~800 3 years ago is now clocking in at a cool $2000.
Previous posters have talked about the pvc resin shortage, this has made ordering plastic pipe a joke.
Quotes used to be good for 90 days, then it was a month, now it’s 2 weeks with a (*)disclaimer(*).
If you have a older house and you are in possession of a Federal panel, you most likely will never be able to buy a new breaker ever again, I haven’t had a full restock of these for over a year. Eaton and siemens push-on style breakers in common sizes have been out of stock for 4 months. Start scouring craigslist for breakers if you need them.
Nobody has told me this, but undoubtedly priority has been given to major industrial plants and of course the power companies for material, but it’s only a matter of time until it catches up to your supply authority.
If you think this is bad, wait until a pole transformer blows and your supply authority doesn’t have one, or a electrical vault catches fire. Freezing in the dark really causes people to realign their priorities.
Kate says we need a famine, you’re going to get one.
Here’s some inside info about other electrical parts to show you how rediculous this is.
From my suppliers e-portal:
A common electrical panel with a 100a main, suitable for 60 circuits:
17,770 backorders for this panel, current production is 175.
A tandem(2 single pole 15) breaker from the same supplier: 59,529 backorders, production runs are 3,900.
Montreal, Quebec
Meat and dairy prices have gone up over the past year and are going up again. Butter is forecast to go up 12 percent in Feb. I notice big increases in basic home goods, too, like towels & sheets to the tune of 10-25 percent. Inflation is everywhere.
The SAQ (Société des alcools du Québec) shelves have been looking sparsely stocked for the past few months. In 10 years living here, this is the first time I’ve seen this. It seemed all the Tequila had suddenly disappeared except for the very expensive bottles. When I asked about it, the store manager said she’d never seen this situation in her 6 years working there. Said there were big shipping & supplier problems and it wasn’t only Tequila. Lots of wines from Europe were out of stock, too, and they often had no clue when new stock might arrive. This wasn’t a problem during 2020 during lockdowns.
Now they announce that they are raising prices on 1300 items starting Nov. 7 —
“Several SAQ suppliers face unprecedented challenges that are having an impact on their production costs. These include labour shortages and higher prices for bottling supplies (glass, stoppers, etc.) and shipping. At the same time, the challenging weather conditions seen in several wine-growing regions have placed additional pressure on prices.”
Apache Junction, AZ. Big Lots store normally sold “Java Time” coffee from Australia, 24 ounce bag for $5, last Spring. Out of stock last week, and they don’t know when they will be able to get more. And it was good coffee, too, comparable to Timmies.
I haven’t noticed much in the way of shortages in the Shuswap area of BC, but did have an interesting conversation a week ago.
I had recently seen a portable steel building that I liked, and thought I would order one for a two bay carport that I could set up in a couple days to keep the snow off the cars this winter. Supplier/manufacturer is in the BC Lower Mainland so I got in touch.
No issue with the price and was all set to order when the salesman mentioned that they are booking into February. Bit of a deal-breaker; here we get about 80% of our snow by the end of January; February/March tend to be considerably dryer.
Chatted a couple minutes longer; there’s not much in these buildings that isn’t either square galvanized steel tubing or metal roofing. The salesman explained that the backlog is primarily on the supply side… getting materials needed to build the structures in a timely manner… than being overloaded with demand. I asked where the steel comes from; mostly from the US he said.
Something like 3 weeks ago on Reddit there’s a sub Reddit called “Justrolledinto theshop” usually broken mechanical things ranging from bicycles to jet fighters. It’s got some pretty neat stuff if you’re into wrenching or fixing things . This particular discussion was asking for examples of shortages and unobtainable parts and materials. You be shocked and nervous if you knew just how many major industries are hanging on by a thread with their production machinery. A lot of times small local welding and fabrication shops are doing major jobs because the parts are either not available, still in a container or sitting in a shipping yard in China. And some of the wharehousemen for supplying car dealers and that are talking like there’s maybe something like ONE turbo for a particular model of truck or car in an entire state and it’s sitting in some dealer’s parts department and they ain’t giving it up except to their own customers. So it’s even the machines that make the machines that make or process the goods that are getting tattered and worn out in some cases and that is really one of the big worries.
Did not read all,
But where I live in grey-bruce I can’t help to notice the lack of new cars on the .lots,
Also my granddaughter was involved in a collision and she has been told it may be months due to lack of parts before she gets it back.
I waited 3 months for a part on my hydraulic pump engine, which a year ago would have taken a week. Kept it working with baling wire and electrical tape, not kidding. Finally gave up and bought a new one. (Set the old one aside until the parts come in… so I’ll have it as a spare)
Near Atlanta, Georgia. I live in the country where the nearest store is a Dollar General where we regularly pick up one-off items with the occasional trip into town to hit the Walmart. There doesn’t seem to be any rhyme or reason for what they’re out of or low on stock on, but in the last month or so we’ve had trouble finding a magnifying glass, lawn and leaf bags, SPAM, Totino’s frozen pizza, bug spray (the whole section of insecticides and pesticides is picked over), and Italian seasoning.
No tennis balls in Florida
Check your 4 star admirals
Might also note that much of the produce at the grocery store looks like crap you’d buy in bulk if you were looking for cheap pig feed. Carrots, oranges, lettuce, bell peppers, cucumbers, potatoes, you have to pick over carefully to avoid the rotted or diseased-looking stuff. Makes me wonder what’s going into the canned fruits and vegetables if this is what passes for presentable-enough to sell as fresh.
For the last year I have noticed produce spoil much more quickly than it used to. I have cooked for my family for 27 years and know how long things last. Now onions can become unusable in 2 weeks, celery in only days.
Hi, here from North Florida. We ordered kitchen cabinets from Lowes (Kraftmaid brand) the end of July. Was told it would be 14-16 weeks for delivery. Now they say we won’t get them until December 23rd. Don’t know if i believe they’ll come in then. Also just ordered new flooring (luxury vinyl planking) It had gone from $3.09 to 3.89 a foot and the distributer said it would probably go up 20-40% more in the next few months. Lots of empty shelves in all the stores around here.
Not canada, but close, northern New Hampshire. Ammo is getting difficult, i am reluctant to visit the range to deplete my supplies.
Food supplies have not been impacted here, but then it is northern NH and late fall. no vacationers small population small stores.
Finding crews for work is, however, becoming difficult