For the past couple of weeks in my town, many of the stores here haven't had the chance to restock items, leaving many empty shelves. There are three regular stores I frequent where I have talked to the employees, and they confirmed that regular shipments aren't coming in, or they only have half the items that are usually delivered. Has anyone else experienced this phenomenon? I remeber that there was talk of a planned food shortage in the U.S on GAW about two months or so ago, so it definitely piqued my curiosity after personally encountering some weird situations.
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I work in industrial supply chain and it's a disaster! We don't have enough people to pick orders... our manufacturing partners are giving us lead times that once were 2-3 days are now 3-5 weeks... for the same issue... not enough employees... just to get us to pre-covid numbers we would need to hire ~2800 employees in the US alone... employees are exhausted and customers are pissed... and if they offer more money to those that are just getting back to work as those who have worked this whole time they'll risk walkouts.
Oh, that makes a lot of sense! Thanks for all your hard work in the industrial chain!