Ive never seen anything like this. Anybody else noticing empty, deserted dockyards?
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Maybe we stopped importing the Chinese garbage, this would be a good move. Make it right here.
This.
That's why walmart and target are half empty
Those stores were built to house Chinese merchandise. I reme.ber when we hardly had any Chinese made shit in our stores.
Then we found how cheap it was made and shit never lasted. I'm glad. Look at all the shut we need to start making here. Lots of manufacturing opportunities.
Let's hope we don't just make our own version of their junk. Time to build quality back into products.
I did wonder why so many shelves in Walmart were totally empty recently. But the real reason not to shop there is that groups of women are attempting to provoke violence by physically attacking elderly women. Has anyone else had this experience?
We did not react, so they made a second attempt. We checked out and left without fuss, but will no longer grace Walmart's doors. We may have to pay more elsewhere, but violence is not on my schedule. Thanks anyway, Walmart.
Care to elaborate on the elderly being attacked?
Would probably be excoriated by someone here or elsewhere if I gave details. Suffice to say that all was seen by the watcher at the automated checkouts. He looked uncomfortable, and I was pretty sure he was happy when we left unscathed.
I've seen a few other signs that show evidence of coming violence, even here in suburbia. I have neighbors who are armed and will protect me.
Well, a lot of US food is sent to China to be processed. Naturally they keep the good stuff and substitute it for poor quality Chinese toxic crap. If you rely on processed food, the bad news is, you're fucked.
There have been 'shortage' type stories about these for a couple months, as with so many other products and consumables.
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/01/22/shipping-container-shortage-is-causing-shipping-costs-to-rise.html
https://www.zerohedge.com/economics/inside-californias-colossal-container-ship-traffic-jam
Perhaps significant numbers are stuck on ships that are not having wages paid to staff with the lack of trade activity, so there is also no profit incentive to unload the (presumed empty) containers for re-use? So they are stuck going nowhere on a depreciating and rusting asset.
I was at a rail yard in the Midwest on Friday. There are tons of trucks still moving and containers going in/out.
Can confirm. Live on a rr mainline and the intermodals are still moving
Just had something Fedex'd from China, got here fine. About to have the rest shipped. I'll let yall know.
Before anyone gives me crap about buying from China, I tired to buy US. Every where I tried told me they were going to go to China for it. So I cut out the middleman and did it myself. Not happy about it but if your business has a need then what can you do?
We need to start manufacturing our own products again. Market them as MAGA Make a fortune
What were you buying? Some shit only China makes still. .aybe we start producing some shit here.
Machine parts. I don't want to get into it to much because cancel culture.
USA doesn't make these parts. I paid money to join a national association so that I could find an American that makes them. Their people set me up with more middlemen in the US that would buy from China.
Good to know. Spouse is a SME here, trying to get his company to diversify more -- they are too dependent on the "flying" industry for business.
Willing to share the general industry where parts are scarce?
There are a lot of liberals that will be my customers. I'm thinking about 50%. I don't want to Black Rifle Coffee myself. Maybe one day I will come back here and tell ya.
The company I work for once tried to make use of Chinese-made materials because the price was drastically lower and claimed to be of the same standard.
The stuff shows up and they start building with it. Then the calls start coming in that stuff is wrong with it. The quality was so poor that by the time they paid to fix all the problems with it that it cost more than the money they originally saved. I wish I remember the details from the testing because for something listed as meeting certain standards, it failed EVERYTHING.
It worked out this time! Thanks goodness it did!
Thanks for replying, I was trying to find this thread again because it gave me an idea for the entrepreneurs around.
Presumably, there is a demand like mentioned for products made in America (Canada for me). Beating prices may not be an option, but can definitively replicate many of the products primarily made in China, except made durable and to applicable standards.
Should be worthwhile to track down some Chinese products to make equivalents that aren't broken once it is removed from the box.
"A quality tool wears out. A cheap tool breaks. There are no exceptions." Henry Ford
If this business I've created doesn't work out then I will make another one. That company will do what you just said. It will also be MAGA AF!
Seems it will be a necessity, the crazy part is, it is all stuff that was originally made in the west and copied by China or sold to them.
We started buying only "Made in USA" products in 1993. It was really tough. We finally gave up in 2002.
All sheet metal for classic cars cheap china shit no more nos fenders quarters
We drove past the Port of Wilmington on Friday. Deserted. No vehicles/vessels. It's not a habbening place but it is somewhat busy.
check the expiration dates. stores are bringing out old stock
creating artificial shortages to inflate prices.
I noticed this at my local GM dealership. I asked them if they were closing or moving because other than the cars inside, and a few used ones. There were NONE. Literally none. Lot which normally has hundreds of cars was empty.
They told me straight up they just can't get inventory. Salespeople must be fucking dying. I feel bad for them.
Some of them might be buried in some of our back yards. :)
Hmmm
CHYNA
Just be reminded that 90% of the raw ingredients used in prescription medication comes from China.
The downside is that those containers have almost quadrupled in price if the discussion I had with a farming buddy of mine is accurate. He can't find any under 5k, even in poor condition. He was picking up once used ones for under 1.5k consistently a couple years ago.
The preppers have them buried out back.
My sister was in SoCal last week visiting her grandbaby, and when she ran up to the grocery store, she said the shelves were "lacking" almost bare. Similar to when lock downs happened. She told me, she told other family members in CA, it would be wise to stock up on everything they regularly use because something is going to happen. She then said, I know I don't have to tell you to stock up! LOL Construction pay is either feast or famine, so, we budget and stock up on the great deals (usually every 13 weeks rotation on items and the week before the week of a holiday).
The shelve are bare because California publicly announced it's not prosecuting misdemeanor shoplifting. So people can steal up to $950 worth of merchandise at a time and are not getting into trouble for it.
I mean, we find USPS plastic boxes everywhere, people used to leave milk crates behind instead of sending them back to where they came from...maybe they just havent been returned empty, and are spread out across the lands like the mentioned crates...
maybe to hide thousands of CCP troops in for the invasion?
hmmm.... maybe the ccp won't invade but will come to bring us food aid to disguise the invasion
https://youtu.be/rcXx5C3VbZM
Chinese buffets are the invasion. Tjey me 70 percent of the population obese
Shut your truth filled mouth... I love it... Admittedly too much ;)