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Thread: The Supply shitshow
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10-30-2021, 03:54 PM #426
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10-30-2021, 04:22 PM #427
Mind if I steal this phrase and make it the motto of my island ?
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10-30-2021, 04:24 PM #428
Needs a hot tub too..
Go that way really REALLY fast. If something gets in your way, TURN!
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10-30-2021, 04:53 PM #429
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10-30-2021, 05:42 PM #430
A lot of shortages are spot shortages and very localized IMO. Rite Aid is always out of stuff--the same stuff the Safeway a few doors down has plenty of. (But it was that way before the pandemic too.) And Rite Aid recently had something Safeway had been out of for weeks. I've had a little spurt of online ordering lately and everything has been in stock, on time, and at the usual price.
Just pray your major appliances and car keep it together for another year or two.
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10-30-2021, 06:32 PM #431
I was amused how the show The Expanse had shipping containers, even in the distant future, with some familiar brands.
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11-01-2021, 11:31 AM #432click here
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Supply chain update
Saw about a dozen cargo ships anchored in SF Bay.
My snow tire order due last Wednesday shipped from the north bay to the central valley to the east bay, still not delivered. It's never been more than 50 miles from its destination. Fedex ground.
Sure are a lot of Amazon vans around.
Grocery orders continue to fill like always (occasional missing items or substitutions.)
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11-02-2021, 10:39 AM #433
Interesting Article if a bit terrifying:
https://medium.com/@ryan79z28/im-a-t...d-bbe0ebac6a91
There is no financial incentive to fix the problem, actually the inverse.
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11-02-2021, 10:46 AM #434
THIS YEAR, AUTONOMOUS TRUCKS WILL TAKE TO THE ROAD WITH NO ONE ON BOARD
SkyNet to the rescue?Go that way really REALLY fast. If something gets in your way, TURN!
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11-02-2021, 11:27 AM #435
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11-02-2021, 07:25 PM #436
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11-02-2021, 09:46 PM #437click here
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Sounds like what DeJoy is doing at the post office. Slowing delivery just creates a storage problem, and complicates the logistics.
My take is there's a substantial incentive to fix the problem. Whoever fixes it gets customers. And perhaps a premium. Why give Fedex* $10 for late packages, when TRGex delivers on time for $12.
That said, it's entirely possible there's a monopolist entity preventing change and extracting "value." Could be a current port owner has no incentive to expand capacity, and no competition from (or also owns the) neighboring ports. BNSF has a lock on most of west cost rail. The longshoreman's union has a lot of influence at all the west coast ports. My impression is warehouse and trucking firms have many owners. Did someone acquire all the logistics companies that manage scheduling?
Of course with a tight system, even a smallish player could profit by jamming it up temporarily. Lose a few days work to jam up the system for weeks or months - weeks or months of charging high rates.
I read somewhere that Port of LA unloaded 20% more containers than ever this year. 20% more freight could snarl the system without any nefarious actors.
* picking on Fedex because they have my tires w/in 50 miles for the last week.
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11-03-2021, 08:51 AM #438
Yes, agreed, but...
This. It's what ski areas discovered in the late 90s, that charging a lot less brings in way more customers and more money. So sure, many businesses are discovering that they can make the same or more money serving fewer people, but they're just creating an opportunity for other businesses. Someone will -- sooner or later -- step in with lower prices and steal the customers (and acquire the customers who "dropped out"."fuck off you asshat gaper shit for brains fucktard wanker." - Jesus Christ
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11-03-2021, 09:15 AM #439
Yep, and the biggest discovery by the ski industry is that skiers are willing to deal with large bottlenecks and stand in long lines for 30-45 minutes or longer. No need to invest in infrastructure. Charge more for less service is a Capitalist's wet dream. After all, they ain't building more ski resorts.
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11-03-2021, 09:15 AM #440
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11-16-2021, 02:18 PM #441
https://www.jhnewsandguide.com/jacks...6b2c7c177.html
"Add the fact that companies are ordering — and hoarding — more goods and parts than they need so they don’t run out, and you end up with an almost unquenchable demand that is magnifying the supply shortages."
I think part of this is everyone's computer system factors in lead times and those have been so stretched they're ordering more items on each order.
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11-16-2021, 07:19 PM #442
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullwhip_effect
Sometimes economists come up with good names for these effects.
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11-16-2021, 07:35 PM #443man of ice
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Yeah but they have to call it something else in Reno.
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11-17-2021, 10:00 AM #444
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11-17-2021, 10:05 AM #445
Copy/paste from Great Resignation thread. This was actually where I meant to post it:
This trucker perfectly describes a MAJOR part of the situation at hand:
A 20-year truck-driving veteran explains why the solution to the supply-chain crisis is in sight but greed is getting in the way
https://news.yahoo.com/20-truck-driv...ycsrp_catchall
The huge trucking firms that have cannibalized and monopolized the industry HARD over the last couple decades is still raking it in and is unwilling to pay drivers worth a damn. Looking at you, Swift! Those guys are dicks.
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11-17-2021, 11:31 AM #446
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11-17-2021, 01:11 PM #447
I saw that movie and it didn't end well for the humans.
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11-17-2021, 01:43 PM #448
I'll believe self-driving trucks are close when they figure out how to deal with bad weather. It doesn't make sense to build a supply chain around self driving trucks until they can operate in all kinds of weather. Even then it will likely require human drivers from depot to freeway and from freeway to depot. It would still make sense for long hauls but then you have to figure out how to fuel them.
Meanwhile we have a cheaper alternative that requires minimal human intervention--trains. Probably we need to invest more in rail infrastructure. Maybe the fed govt needs to be laying track and charging the RR's to use it.
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11-17-2021, 01:58 PM #449
https://youtu.be/W7jSsyQKIfE
Excellent summary from 60 minutes. Situation is totally fucked. And some companies are making obscene amounts of money screwing everyone.
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11-17-2021, 02:10 PM #450
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