AK has to barge all its goods from outside. Article in this week’s daily rag reports that shipping costs are going up due to constrictions related to meeting mandates, wear and tear on employees, and PITA of access to docks. Lot of boats are moored at ports with no place to be.
Added to the reduced hours manufacturers of goods are actually producing, paper plants dropped shifts, much as others have reduced employment. Less goods to ship, less stuff on shelves. Now it is weather that slows or impedes goods arriving, so it stacks up at originating ports not getting loaded, as well as not being off loaded, as there is reduced rail and road transport. A recent example of how SARS-CoV is tossing a wrench. #1 boy is essential. He was in a location all day with somebody who came in contact with another person who came in contact with other person who tested for the plague. Being a conscientious person, he tells the supervisor. That gets him sent home until he has percolated long enough for plague to erupt, at which point he has to get a test for Schroedinger virus. One week out of work. Tested and has to wait, since employer demands most reliable testing. Other week unemployed. Had he been truly infected, then funding would have kicked in for lost wages. Since he did not become plague zombie, no dinero, work was down essential employees at essential job sites for half the month, chain reaction of contact trace put even more people imprisoned to 14 days, slowing more essential business. One positive. It was hunting season, so the plague in waiting group was able to bag their limits. Clay inter urinas et faeces nascimur > On Nov 22, 2020, at 1:12 PM, Allan Streib via Mercedes > <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > > How come, as we approach a year of this pandemic, the paper companies > still cannot keep retailers stocked with toilet paper and paper towels? > > I was at Target yesterday, and they had nothing. Zippo. Not even a roll > of the most generic off-brand anything. > > Is it simply lack of truck and storage and shelf space? The retailers > are buying as much as they can fit through their pipeline and it's still > not enough? > > Why are they not raising prices to meet demand? Surely it's better to > have to pay more for something if you really need it, than to be unable > to buy it at all? A higher price will also discourgage hoarding. > > Allan > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
