Demand

[Hilly]

How come so much demand for prettt much everthing ? Well everthing I try to buy lol get told 15 20 week wait demand is so high etc etc Disney make sense to me blaming Covid and brexit you think these things would ease demand not ramp it up ??

 

[digger64]

How come so much demand for prettt much everthing ? Well everthing I try to buy lol get told 15 20 week wait demand is so high etc etc Disney make sense to me blaming Covid and brexit you think these things would ease demand not ramp it up ??

Are you talking big or small stuff - tags ,meds, seeds ,fuel etc seem better than last year to me

 

[Kevtherev]

Lot of the problems stem from furloughed staff down the line even a small manufacturer making some small components has a huge effect.

 

[Campbell]

One big problem regarding imported stuff, is that all the world's shipping containers are in the wrong place, due to the sudden drop in trade last year. No one wants to lug empty containers back to where they came from.....and we all know where that is.

 

[Sid]

3 weeks for a specialist ram to be made and shipped from Italy.
I didn't think that was too bad tbh.

 

[deleted user 436632456]

Has anyone else been given the national cardboard shortage line yet?

Had 2 this week already, one from a supplier and one from a lab

 

[Steevo]

Has anyone else been given the national cardboard shortage line yet?

Had 2 this week already, one from a supplier and one from a lab

Yep. All Amazon's fault apparently.

 

[quattro]

Has anyone else been given the national cardboard shortage line yet?

Had 2 this week already, one from a supplier and one from a lab

I find that to believe, or maybe not. We get big boxes with a small box inside packed round with either chopped cardboard or rolled up paper
heaps of waste

 

[Steevo]

I find that to believe, or maybe not. We get big boxes with a small box inside packed round with either chopped cardboard or rolled up paper
heaps of waste

If only they could make it from straw.....

 

[Brisel]

Part of the problem is disrupted supply chain logistics. Lorries don't always have back loads & processing capacity is limited in some firms where working from home just doesn't get the same output. Add in delays at ports, some blatant profiteering, shifting supply & demand and some sectors are short on capacity.

Despite this, economic activity is up & the FTSE 100 index is approaching pre Covid levels. There is work going on!

 

[Hilly]

Part of the problem is disrupted supply chain logistics. Lorries don't always have back loads & processing capacity is limited in some firms where working from home just doesn't get the same output. Add in delays at ports, some blatant profiteering, shifting supply & demand and some sectors are short on capacity.

Despite this, economic activity is up & the FTSE 100 index is at pre Covid levels. There is work going on!

Everyone I speak to is at breaking point with work , biggest problem finding staff yet watch the news and it’s all doom n gloom strange times .

 

[Brisel]

We're in a massive period of change in how we live, shop and generally operate. I've no idea what life will be like once we're all jabbed but IMO it won't ever be that same as pre Covid.

 

[neilo]

I find that to believe, or maybe not. We get big boxes with a small box inside packed round with either chopped cardboard or rolled up paper
heaps of waste

Replacement iPad just been delivered from Amazon Warehouse (£50 cheaper for damaged/marked box).

 

[Hilly]

Replacement iPad just been delivered from Amazon Warehouse (£50 cheaper for damaged/marked box).

Just shows how much they making on them if they can do that mind , some size box for iPad

 

[Pan mixer]

I need a small bit for a tooth grinding tool (for piglets) from Germany.

Couldn'y order it online for some reason UK wasn't in the list of countries you could put in the address section.

Emailed the company 'I am sorry but we cannot export anything to the UK at present'

 

[deleted user 436632456]

I find that to believe, or maybe not. We get big boxes with a small box inside packed round with either chopped cardboard or rolled up paper
heaps of waste

NRM labs are out of soil sampling boxes and their fancy new cardboard cool boxes till the end of April apparently.

The other supplier that told me they are out of cardboard boxes is now couriering in small wooden crates, I cant complain about them though as they will come in useful/the wife has eyed them up for the garden.

 

[Clive]

How come so much demand for prettt much everthing ? Well everthing I try to buy lol get told 15 20 week wait demand is so high etc etc Disney make sense to me blaming Covid and brexit you think these things would ease demand not ramp it up ??

money !

people have a lot of it right now, a lot has been printed recently

 

[Hilly]

money !

people have a lot of it right now, a lot has been printed recently

I hope it dosent back fire into interest rate rise

 

[Pan mixer]

I hope it dosent back fire into interest rate rise

Bound to happen, sadly

 

[Clive]

I hope it dosent back fire into interest rate rise

will be interesting

we are surely seeing significant inflation which usual leads to higher interest rates to control

but i cant see interest rates rising personally, more likely to fall even

results could be a lot of “free” money ?