Out of Stock...
It's become the usual phrase "Sorry, that's out of stock and on backorder"Cabinet hardware, plumbing fixtures, lumber, it really makes little difference as the entire world seems to be on backorder.
One of my friends recently moved to Asheville, North Carolina. He's a retired general contractor building his own house. Literally, everything going into the house is in short supply, out of stock and on backorder. What was expected to be a few months of construction is turning into a year. It's a good thing he and his wife have a motor home parked on his land while construction goes on.
The last two kitchen jobs I signed had discontinued tiles and the clients had to return to re-select.
I waited 3 months for a new model helicopter to become available. I got the email last week it's in stock and ready to place an order today I see it's already sold out with the next shipment due around the end of July.
Checking with a competitors models and 80% of their inventory appear to be on backorder.
It's not hard to predict that rebuilding after COVID will be a long, long time.
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Too much, really.
Now that I am retired, I don't need the suits, ties, nor dress shoes near as much.
The one thing I go through is spikes for softball. They used to last 5 years.
Now they are used up in a year.
But, a sports store near me went out of business last summer
and I bought 4 pairs of new spikes and 3 pairs of hiking boots, all at a great discount.
I'm set.
The only things I buy now are food and gasoline.
I've also been buying old computers and upgrading the RAM & harddrives, doing minor repairs and re-selling them at a profit.
It's a spare time sort of thing. No shortages there either.
However, I did read that some microchips are becoming backorders.
Luckily Google knows something;
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