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Old 10-05-2021, 05:13 AM
 
Location: Florida
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Today will be a test as to what's short at the Walmart where I am.
I do pick up and the process has changed a bit so, as a test, I selected that the store may substitute every item on my list.
Now to wait and see how many and what items they are.
Not too bad, out of 36 items...the kind of coffee I use and a particular bread offered substitutes, the coffee not being acceptable. Clementine oranges and one kind of cookie did not even offer a substitution so simply unavailable.
Coffee wasn't a surprise since that's been hit and miss with the drought in Brazil.
6 kinds of meat with no problem.
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Old 10-05-2021, 06:07 AM
 
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Yes, that's what was said at the Dollar Tree. It's crazy. I stocked more shelves at Walmart years ago and it wouldn't take much time to stock their shelves. There were a lot more shelves at Walmart and it was done in a few hours. The shelves at the DT have not been stocked in months. The empty spots are in the same places.
Dollar tree stock isn’t rotated , they don’t have time to stock the shelves let alone rotate , best grab what’s in front first , frozen items thaw out while trucks getting unloaded , then put in freezers to refreeze . Dollar General and dollar tree , two different stores, dollar general have always had different prices , dollar tree , every item was $1 dollar .
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Old 10-05-2021, 06:13 AM
 
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There isn't a shortage, it's just all waiting to be offloaded and distributed. That is what happens when there is a lull in shipping, then all at once things start shipping again.

Ignore the annoying commentary but here are where all the products are. And other ports are starting to back up as well. I think he counted 97 ships at the time of the video.

https://youtu.be/PGTDGhllH8E
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Old 10-05-2021, 06:26 AM
 
Location: On the Chesapeake
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Container ships waiting to be off loaded at the Port of Baltimore were lined up in the Chesapeake down to Annapolis on Saturday.
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Old 10-05-2021, 07:35 AM
 
Location: NMB, SC
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Container ships waiting to be off loaded at the Port of Baltimore were lined up in the Chesapeake down to Annapolis on Saturday.
They are also filling up Puget Sound on the west coast.

This all started in January when an MSM article noted "38 ships" floating off the west coast.
In normal times you'd see a max of 5.

Now we're up to 157 off the CA coast.

The Longshoremen union just agreed to go to 3 shifts but only if all the empties are taken off the docks first.
Here's the problem with that....the truckers that take the empties have their lots full of previous empties that they could not bring back to the docs because the ships weren't emptied of full containers.

AND...there is little to no automation on the docks because.....the union fears it will lead to job loss.

So this is a mess of our own making and I think refusal to automate is part of it.
And we want to "bring mfg back to the US" ? Really ? Only to have exports sitting on the docks for months ?


Now China has 6 of the busiest ports in the world. They invested and are automated.
Qingdao is fully automated using 5G and AI. It can maintain its volume 24/7.
It's all part of China's Belt and Road initiative.
https://www.porttechnology.org/news/...tomated_ports/

Rotterdam is fully automated as well.
https://www.wired.co.uk/article/rott...ips-automation
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Old 10-05-2021, 07:42 AM
 
Location: Coastal Mid-Atlantic
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Container ships waiting to be off loaded at the Port of Baltimore were lined up in the Chesapeake down to Annapolis on Saturday.

Start making the stuff here, and we wont need to be waiting on these ships. So its costs more. When you were a kid, your family may have done without something because it cost too much. You lived through that. Our gov. has sold us out. I saw on the news. Dollar Tree, everything wont be $1 anymore. Some items will be $1.25 to $1.50.
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Old 10-05-2021, 08:00 AM
 
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There isn't a shortage, it's just all waiting to be offloaded and distributed. That is what happens when there is a lull in shipping, then all at once things start shipping again.

Ignore the annoying commentary but here are where all the products are. And other ports are starting to back up as well. I think he counted 97 ships at the time of the video.

https://youtu.be/PGTDGhllH8E
True. I ordered a piece of furniture two weeks ago and I was told I wouldn't get it for over a month because of the ships waiting to off load on our shores.
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Old 10-05-2021, 08:03 AM
 
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True. I ordered a piece of furniture two weeks ago and I was told I wouldn't get it for over a month because of the ships waiting to off load on our shores.
A month ? Consider yourself lucky. My Mom was told 6 months on furniture. It took us 6 months to get our dishwasher.
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Old 10-05-2021, 08:59 AM
 
Location: Cali
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Right and a year into Trumps term it was but Obama..

And a year into Obama's term it was but Bush...
You do know the election in 2016 was between Trump and Hillary, right?

Unlike Trump, Obama finished his terms whereas Trump was fired/not re-elected thanks to you lefty. Yet, almost a year into firing Trump and all i'm hearing is "but but but Trump"



Is that easier for you to understand now?
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Old 10-05-2021, 09:04 AM
 
Location: Just over the horizon
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Start making the stuff here, and we wont need to be waiting on these ships. So its costs more. When you were a kid, your family may have done without something because it cost too much. You lived through that. Our gov. has sold us out. I saw on the news. Dollar Tree, everything wont be $1 anymore. Some items will be $1.25 to $1.50.


I don't disagree on bringing manufacturing back to the US, but I hate to tell you, not much of anything has been $1 at the Dollar store in a long time now.
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