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Hopefully this is a isolated event and not like we had a few years back when everyone decided to fill up on the same day for “reasons” and cause us issues for no good reason. But we did have a run on toilet paper last year so my hope that people are not stupid is not a good one.
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Toilet paper, electricity, food. Walmart couldn't fill my son's medication last week, all of their suppliers were out, we ended up having to change meds.
A lot of my business supplies are backordered. My guy who makes boxes for my supplies can't get a steady supply of cardboard to make boxes for me. I finally got my 80K 3 phase generator on order from Cummins. I had to put 50% down and it will take at least 4 months for them to build the machine.
Don't get me started on deliveries. We're tracking 3 pallets of freight today on different carriers that were supposed to be delivered yesterday, they are still sitting in freight warehouses today. I had product going to UC Davis last week, it took 7 business days to arrive, part of the material is ruined, customers are pissed. FedEx made up some bullshit story about not getting it delivered, then they finally admitted they didn't have enough people to drive their trucks. We're talking Davis, California, right outside Sacramento, not Marfa, Texas.
I had another single box to a customer in North Carolina, $200 to ship it on 2nd day Express via FedEx, it arrived 5 days late. More ruined product, more pissed customers with a $200 fedex bill.
Doesn't seem to matter that we've been working 6 days a week for 15 months now, we can't get product and we're having limited success trying to ship product out.
Short of having a civil war, someone is doing their best to kill our economy.