I work in Supply Chain, and you're right about disruptions. My company employed more than 100k truckers in 2018, now we are down to 35k and we pay more than anyone else in the industry by far because our CEO is a former trucker.
We have weekly meetings where we basically have to decide what gets shipped where and triage what is most important. There are mass amounts of food just rotting in shipping containers all over the country. There's medicine and soft goods just gathering dust in the Port of Los Angeles and South Florida.
We were prioritizing gas heavily, but food is quickly starting to take over in importance due to the spoilage, which means gas prices are about to go up A LOT. Like 1-2 bucks a gallon in the next 45 days or so.
Our company doesn't do it, but I know other companies have government advisers who help with the triage stuff, we stay independent and work with our customers - the stores and shops - and let them decide what is most important and take that into account.
I left out the whole warehouse thing. Sometimes trucks show up and there is no one to fill them up. Like 10% of the time nowadays.
Californian warehouses are not operating at full capacity and there are shortages even if the truck drivers show up to pick up orders to ship to distribution centers and then to retail stores. Same with the farms in California where farm workers are hard to find and they can't keep up with demand.
Not just commiefornia, it's every state like that right now. In states where the government is nice enough to allow workers to work, a lot of the workers don't show up because they're making bank on unemployment.
You mean that despite importing foreigners by the millions, commiefornia cant get farmhands?
So many foreigners just come for the free gibs. Not all, but a significant number.