I took this picture yesterday
I took this picture yesterday
Likes pretty much everything in every caliber.
Food supply chain is for sure screwed up. I went to my local cracker barrel two weeks ago to pick up a takeout order. They had substituted rainbow trout for our order of catfish and sheepishly asked if that was ok, they had run out earlier in the week and did not get the new shipment.
I took the order and we ate it, but for heaven's sakes, this is Alabama, we are a major net exporter of catfish!!!!!
Signs like GJM posted are on the front doors of a lot of BBQ joints in my area, if not apologizing for missing menu items, apologizing for having to raise prices, especially meat entrees due to rapid inflation.
I had a vendor tell me that in 2019 they were shipping 40’ containers from overseas for $5800, and now they’re anywhere from $18,000 to maybe $27,000 and also resupply on some stuff is 12 months out.
My contingency planning baseline scenario is to assume it just gets worse.
Anymore, if I need a hand tool, my first check is fleabay and classic American brands. And sometimes Swedish. Or English. Swiss and German are good if you can find them.
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Not another dime.
I have posted these links before re mostly german tools and NOS (new old stock) american tools. You have been warned
https://www.kctool.com/
https://www.harryepstein.com/
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Sorta around sometimes for some of your shitty mod needs.
There also appear to be bottlenecks further upstream at the raw material production level. Two months ago, while purchasing a new Toyota truck, the sales manager and I engaged in some small talk about their lack of new inventory. He told me that Toyota was not short on chipsets (at the time) like some other manufacturers, but they couldn’t procure enough aluminum from Alcoa for engine blocks, or a proprietary plastic from 3M that they use to make the foam in their seats.
Either last week, or the week before, I read that Toyota was cutting 90,000 vehicles a month from their normal production schedule. There’s probably a half dozen compiling factors, or more, for the cutbacks at this point.