What's your supply chain issue? How's this one for a start?

[BroadwayHermione5]

Hmm I wonder if people are buying those in prep for this late fall/winter season?? **Even though I bet most people taking them don't actually know if their body needs them.

I’m wondering this too.
Like please save it for the humans with deficiencies or who actually need them like me. I fear for toilet paper shortages again….

 

[RamblingMad]

I’m wondering this too.
Like please save it for the humans with deficiencies or who actually need them like me. I fear for toilet paper shortages again….

I had to go to two Costco's to get TP. I expect we ran out around the same time that others have ran out. I just grabbed paper towels just in case too. We go through those slower. Now, the amount of TP that Costco is currently selling has dropped. So we'll go through it faster.

 

[BroadwayHermione5]

I had to go to two Costco's to get TP. I expect we ran out around the same time that others have ran out. I just grabbed paper towels just in case too. We go through those slower. Now, the amount of TP that Costco is currently selling has dropped. So we'll go through it faster.

My aunt does a Costco run every week and a half and she always buys the paper towels regardless. Toilet paper as we use different kinds she will compare prices and will go back to a grocery store to get the brand not cheaper at Costco . She has it down to a science.

 

[RamblingMad]

My aunt does a Costco run every week and a half and she always buys the paper towels regardless. Toilet paper as we use different kinds she will compare prices and will go back to a grocery store to get the brand not cheaper at Costco . She has it down to a science.

The roll quantities have dropped too.

 

[dez1978]

Mostly convenience items like frozen meals for lunches. But some absolutely important items like lunchables (heaven forbid these kids eat something else lol). Actually a lot of kid food has been hard to find.

1st world problem, but we've been trying to find a youth side by side or UTV for about 3 months for our 7 yr old. It's been impossible to find what we want. There are a ton of tiny like 70 cc 4 wheelers out there, but anything larger is just not anywhere.

 

[tvguy]

Ran into my first supply chain issue today. My burglar alarm uses 3G cellular to call in to the alarm monitoring service. All the cellular companies are supposedly taking 3G away come January 1st. Now the modules they need to switch to 4G are in short supply. They were supposed to come out today to do the upgrade, but called this morning to cancel since they don't have the part. Funny thing is I wanted this system wired into my landline when they put it in, no cellular, but the installer made a big deal about how dated landline connections are and how using the cellular connection would last the life of the system. Wrong. Not too concerned however, because if they can't get the part by January 1st, they can come out and wire the system into my landline. THAT is still supported.

 

[tvguy]

Chicken livers. Sounds stupid, but my sister and I are getting together this weekend, and this is a "childhood" supper that we can only share with each other (obviously!). Unfortunately, NONE of the stores around here can get them!

I love chicken livers and they were almost impossible to find in the grocery store here for YEARS before the pandemic. And when traveling to see family in Texas and Missouri, I have to stop and get the Liver Dinner at KFC. KFC out here doesn't have the Liver dinner anymore. We did get a Cracker Barrel here a few years back and they do have chicken livers on the menu.

 

[Meriweather]

Philly cream cheese here was $2.50 for an 8 ounce block at the store yesterday,
I am checking Walmart today

Back from Walmart.
Philly cream cheese was $2,50 there, $4.50 in the two pack.
I got a 2 pack of Great Value for $2......good enough for baking

 

[DisneyHardin]

Ran into my first supply chain issue today. My burglar alarm uses 3G cellular to call in to the alarm monitoring service. All the cellular companies are supposedly taking 3G away come January 1st. Now the modules they need to switch to 4G are in short supply. They were supposed to come out today to do the upgrade, but called this morning to cancel since they don't have the part. Funny thing is I wanted this system wired into my landline when they put it in, no cellular, but the installer made a big deal about how dated landline connections are and how using the cellular connection would last the life of the system. Wrong. Not too concerned however, because if they can't get the part by January 1st, they can come out and wire the system into my landline. THAT is still supported.

We had to upgrade our alarm a few months ago too from the 3G. We pulled ours from the Landline wiring a few years ago because we have our landline through the cable company, so if the power goes out, our phone goes out because the phone signal comes through the modem even though it is a "landline" and I didn't like the idea of the alarm not working if the power was out. With the cellular signal, it will only stop working if the backup battery runs out.

 

[tvguy]

We had to upgrade our alarm a few months ago too from the 3G. We pulled ours from the Landline wiring a few years ago because we have our landline through the cable company, so if the power goes out, our phone goes out because the phone signal comes through the modem even though it is a "landline" and I didn't like the idea of the alarm not working if the power was out. With the cellular signal, it will only stop working if the backup battery runs out.

Yeah I have a landline landline. Works even with the power out.

 

[Dan Murphy]

Yeah I have a landline landline. Works even with the power out.

Here (maybe everywhere) AT&T has a name for it, POTS, Plain Old Telephone Service. That is their actual name for it. We have had it for over 50 years, never has gone out, ever. We'll never get rid of ours.


Wow, sure are a lot of different things we all are having a hard time getting.

 

[RamblingMad]

Here (maybe everywhere) AT&T has a name for it, POTS, Plain Old Telephone Service. That is their actual name for it. We have had it for over 50 years, never has gone out, ever. We'll never get rid of ours.


Wow, sure are a lot of different things we all are having a hard time getting.

I haven't had one of those since 2002.

 

[Christine]

Chicken livers. Sounds stupid, but my sister and I are getting together this weekend, and this is a "childhood" supper that we can only share with each other (obviously!). Unfortunately, NONE of the stores around here can get them!

Not sure where you are located, but we seem to have a good supply of chicken livers. Probably because they are supplied by Bell & Evans out of Pennsylvania, only a few hours away.

 

[tvguy]

Here (maybe everywhere) AT&T has a name for it, POTS, Plain Old Telephone Service. That is their actual name for it. We have had it for over 50 years, never has gone out, ever. We'll never get rid of ours.

One of the lessons of the wildfire in Santa Rosa in 2017 was, the cell phone towers burned up, so no cell service in the city. The landlines in the city were all buried and working just fine. People who depended on cell phone emergency alerts had to way to receive them. One of the hospitals in Santa Rosa contacted all the radio and TV stations asking us to report that their employees should call in on the hospital landline numbers, not their supervisors cell phone numbers since the cell phones were out.
Oh, and speaking of OLD technology that did not fail during the fire, AM radio. The Emergency Alert system put out on AM radio stations which can broadcast from well outside the area.....often by 100 miles.....worked perfectly. Almost every car has an AM radio, however I can't remember that last time I listened to AM radio.

 

[Moliphino]

Chicken livers. Sounds stupid, but my sister and I are getting together this weekend, and this is a "childhood" supper that we can only share with each other (obviously!). Unfortunately, NONE of the stores around here can get them!

My mom has been buying them regularly lately... to make food for the dog.

 

[Christine]

My mom has been buying them regularly lately... to make food for the dog.

That's what I buy them for also.

 

[NotUrsula]

My mom has been buying them regularly lately... to make food for the dog.

All that iron is good for human hair, too, LOL!
I use them to make rice dressing, so I buy a bunch, cook them, chop them up and freeze them in the right quantity for the recipe.

 

[penn19]

Oh no! I use those to make "Christmas crack" (chocolate graham crackers with melted peppermint chips). I am going to have to start keeping an eye out for them now so i can hopefully have a box or two by Christmas.

Hold up…..this sounds delicious. Can you share the recipe/process? Or is it as simple as just melting the chips on the Graham crackers?

 

[Mackenzie Click-Mickelson]

Went to Costco..no toilet paper.

My Neutrogena body wash is out of stock in virtually all the Walmarts in my area. I think checking there are maybe 2 locations that listed it as in stock but none were near where I would be at. I'm wondering if it's being discontinued because Amazon doesn't really have it and Target is virtually out of stock too.

 

[tvguy]

I haven't had one of those since 2002.

I worked graveyard shift for 25 years so I slept during the day. In 1990 I got a cell phone primarily as a second line that I could use when sleeping. I'd turn the ringer off on the landline, and the volume down on the answering machine and that is the only phone number work had, or that I gave out. I could sleep undisturbed, but in an emergency, my wife, kids and elderly mother could get a hold of me. To this day only 6 people have my cell phone number, and I get very very very few wrong numbers or robocalls on it. Keeping the landline is really a safety issue with me. If my wife and I have an emergency and can't speak, but can dial 9-1-1, they get our exact address. With a cell phone, it is within about 100 yards.
I can't imagine a day that I won't have a landline. And after a cell phone failure, my daughter is looking at getting a landline or some sort of backup phone system just for emergencies.