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Here's a decent article that breaks down what the price increase is (inflation) for individual product types. Prices Continue to Surge If you run into a paywall, here's the brief: "Americans pay for goods and services, rose 0.9 percent over the month in October and 6.2 percent over the year...

So...local anecdote: My wife went shopping yesterday, and she couldn't find salt or vinegar.

I worked a union job while going to school at Texas A&M, US Post Office position. I ran away screaming after I graduated because promotion was almost ENTIRELY seniority based. No sense of responsibility to the customers.

Hooray Texas!

Yup. Feline domesticus gets a kill more times than any other predator.

The Jalepeno cheddar spread was a good one for movement... :P

When I was in, it was just a matter of rotating your MREs properly. Some would bind you up, and then some would make it go!

Really, those things won't fix what's happening. CA banned trucks older than 2011 from handling freight in ports. I've seen footage from cameras on the Long Beach port where none of the cranes are moving in an area(loading/unloading) and none of the trucks in line are moving. I have no idea...

OK, but how do you make them? I mean, after all that and no recipe? C'mon man! :P

The Biden admin is being forced ask corporations to save Christmas. Key Quotes: "Walmart said it would “increase its use of night-time hours significantly and projects they could increase throughput by as much as 50 percent over the next several weeks.”" "UPS said it would commit to use 24/7...

What do you mean I can't eat cereal three times a day?!

I'm don't think I posted this earlier: from Sep 29th Long Beach & Los Angelos Ports currently show 153 Container ships in line. -60 are currently being loaded/unloaded. -The rest are either at anchor or adrift in deeper waters waiting their turn. -Normal operations see 0-1 ship waiting to...

That does suck. Battletech was saved a LOT of pain because of the sheer timing and money their last kickstarter brought in. DUST 1947 just didn't have solid plan to get established from what I saw, or at least not enough time pre-pandemic to make it work.

My local FLGS is also a kids toy store, and they traditionally do a HUGE amount of business at Christmas. Like most retailers, Black Friday to New Years is how they pay for their year. They've smelled what's going on in the shipping arena and teh fact that a LOT won't be available on time...