2021 Supply Disruptions

[JayhawkCO]

From Eat This, Not That! - 8 New Grocery Shortages Shoppers Have Reported This Week (October 31st). On the list:

• Candy Corn

There is no way this can be true.  There aren't enough people lacking taste buds in the world to buy all of those.

Chris

[hotdogPi]

Candy corns are the one candy that consistently gets to 90% off.

[hbelkins]

I actually like candy corn. I don't eat it often, or any of the other varieties ("autumn mix") but I don't dislike it.

One thing I haven't seen much of this year is peanut butter kisses. The only place I've seen them this year was at Dollar General, where they had the Melster brand in $1 bags. Usually Mary Jane is the popular brand, but I didn't see any of them this year.

[dlsterner]

I must be weird.  I actually like candy corn, and look forward to buying it for pennies on the dollar post Halloween.

Except for the time when it was sticky enough that it pulled a crown off of a dental implant.  A bit embarrassing to explain to the dentist exactly how it happened.

[abefroman329]

I must be weird.  I actually like candy corn, and look forward to buying it for pennies on the dollar post Halloween.

Except for the time when it was sticky enough that it pulled a crown off of a dental implant.  A bit embarrassing to explain to the dentist exactly how it happened.

You think that's embarrassing, try explaining to your dentist that your temporary crown fell off and into the food you were chewing, and you swallowed it without knowing it was in your food.

[snowc]

Candy corn is my fave. Not like where Walmart here in Erwin takes all the candy corn and puts it into CVP mode. 

[formulanone]

I must be weird.  I actually like candy corn, and look forward to buying it for pennies on the dollar post Halloween.

Except for the time when it was sticky enough that it pulled a crown off of a dental implant.  A bit embarrassing to explain to the dentist exactly how it happened.

You think that's embarrassing, try explaining to your dentist that your temporary crown fell off and into the food you were chewing, and you swallowed it without knowing it was in your food.

I lost a temporary crown from eating a stalk of celery.

There's one of my exciting salad stories...

[Rothman]

I actually like candy corn. I don't eat it often, or any of the other varieties ("autumn mix") but I don't dislike it.

One thing I haven't seen much of this year is peanut butter kisses. The only place I've seen them this year was at Dollar General, where they had the Melster brand in $1 bags. Usually Mary Jane is the popular brand, but I didn't see any of them this year.

I like candy corn and I bought two bags of the black and orange wrapped peanut butter kisses this year.

[Pink Jazz]

Seems like this Halloween many chemiluminescent glow products were hard to find, especially more obscure colors such as pink or white. Almost all glow sticks are made in China, and probably the factories were priortizing production of the more popular colors and the assorted color packs that include these colors.

[vdeane]

Meanwhile at Hannaford, frozen foods are better (but still rather low), but now soup is hard to come by.  I've had to bounce over to Market Bisto (Price Chopper/Market32) two weeks in a row now.

[ZLoth]

Another one.... I'm currently getting quotes for the replacement of a set of French patio doors and the associated framing. Not only are the current doors in my home in bad condition, but for some reason, one of them stopped locking. Both the doors and the frame has to be replaced, and while I anticipated the repair, I was holding off until the money was saved up. It has turned into a priority situation now. I'm currently getting quotes, but the lead time is now 12-16 weeks out.... and the doors are manufactured in Clovis, CA and shipped to Texas. At least I'm getting white. Some of the other colors have a 22 week lead time.

[snowc]

Another one.... I'm currently getting quotes for the replacement of a set of French patio doors and the associated framing. Not only are the current doors in my home in bad condition, but for some reason, one of them stopped locking. Both the doors and the frame has to be replaced, and while I anticipated the repair, I was holding off until the money was saved up. It has turned into a priority situation now. I'm currently getting quotes, but the lead time is now 12-16 weeks out.... and the doors are manufactured in Clovis, CA and shipped to Texas. At least I'm getting white. Some of the other colors have a 22 week lead time.

Trying to buy a monitor for school (DME 215 needs it) and it costs $200+ for a new monitor. 

[kalvado]

Another one.... I'm currently getting quotes for the replacement of a set of French patio doors and the associated framing. Not only are the current doors in my home in bad condition, but for some reason, one of them stopped locking. Both the doors and the frame has to be replaced, and while I anticipated the repair, I was holding off until the money was saved up. It has turned into a priority situation now. I'm currently getting quotes, but the lead time is now 12-16 weeks out.... and the doors are manufactured in Clovis, CA and shipped to Texas. At least I'm getting white. Some of the other colors have a 22 week lead time.

Trying to buy a monitor for school (DME 215 needs it) and it costs $200+ for a new monitor. 

Not sure what kind of monitor you need, but Staples has a basic one for $160: https://www.staples.com/Dell-SE2222H-21-5--LCD-Monitor--Black/product_24509186
if you need something more loaded, then it is another story

[snowc]

Another one.... I'm currently getting quotes for the replacement of a set of French patio doors and the associated framing. Not only are the current doors in my home in bad condition, but for some reason, one of them stopped locking. Both the doors and the frame has to be replaced, and while I anticipated the repair, I was holding off until the money was saved up. It has turned into a priority situation now. I'm currently getting quotes, but the lead time is now 12-16 weeks out.... and the doors are manufactured in Clovis, CA and shipped to Texas. At least I'm getting white. Some of the other colors have a 22 week lead time.

Trying to buy a monitor for school (DME 215 needs it) and it costs $200+ for a new monitor. 

Not sure what kind of monitor you need, but Staples has a basic one for $160: https://www.staples.com/Dell-SE2222H-21-5--LCD-Monitor--Black/product_24509186
if you need something more loaded, then it is another story

Need a smart monitor for my artwork.

[Scott5114]

Need a smart monitor for my artwork.

As someone who does art on a basic (if large) monitor, I ask...why?

[snowc]

Need a smart monitor for my artwork.

As someone who does art on a basic (if large) monitor, I ask...why?

We at Wake Tech needs a smart monitor to be able to communicate with instructors.

[Scott5114]

Need a smart monitor for my artwork.

As someone who does art on a basic (if large) monitor, I ask...why?

We at Wake Tech needs a smart monitor to be able to communicate with instructors.

At Missouri State, we used email for that...

[snowc]

Need a smart monitor for my artwork.

As someone who does art on a basic (if large) monitor, I ask...why?

We at Wake Tech needs a smart monitor to be able to communicate with instructors.

At Missouri State, we used email for that...

For sharing work, we need to communicate with Office Teams and Word, which comes with this desktop. I can also play my movies on it with no set top box! Even my ISP! No desktop needed! Also, why does Walmart's Private label art desk cost $200! 

[Scott5114]

At Missouri State, we shared work with email too. Which is free and works on any computer. I think some professors had some sort of Web application (Blackboard, maybe?) that you could upload work to as well. In any event, we weren't required to spend our own money on anything; the dorms had a few computers you could use, or you could head over to the computer science building and use the lab there.

[snowc]

At Missouri State, we shared work with email too. Which is free and works on any computer. I think some professors had some sort of Web application (Blackboard, maybe?) that you could upload work to as well. In any event, we weren't required to spend our own money on anything; the dorms had a few computers you could use, or you could head over to the computer science building and use the lab there.

Wake Tech uses Blackboard but it's WAY too slow to upload large files like PhotoShop and Illustrator. I use OneDrive to upload stuff (We get Onedrive free forever. 1tb!)

[kalvado]

At Missouri State, we shared work with email too. Which is free and works on any computer. I think some professors had some sort of Web application (Blackboard, maybe?) that you could upload work to as well. In any event, we weren't required to spend our own money on anything; the dorms had a few computers you could use, or you could head over to the computer science building and use the lab there.

Wake Tech uses Blackboard but it's WAY too slow to upload large files like PhotoShop and Illustrator. I use OneDrive to upload stuff (We get Onedrive free forever. 1tb!)

Point is, smart monitor may be a cool thing ( :skeptical: ) , but I find it hard to justify one as a formal requirement for the course, even in all-remote setting.

[Scott5114]

At Missouri State, we shared work with email too. Which is free and works on any computer. I think some professors had some sort of Web application (Blackboard, maybe?) that you could upload work to as well. In any event, we weren't required to spend our own money on anything; the dorms had a few computers you could use, or you could head over to the computer science building and use the lab there.

Wake Tech uses Blackboard but it's WAY too slow to upload large files like PhotoShop and Illustrator. I use OneDrive to upload stuff (We get Onedrive free forever. 1tb!)

Point is, smart monitor may be a cool thing ( :skeptical: ) , but I find it hard to justify one as a formal requirement for the course, even in all-remote setting.

I learned my first semester in college that formal requirements for courses were bunk after one of my professors assigned some expensive-ass book and then we weren't assigned anything to do with it. Of course, these days you can pirate PDFs of textbooks pretty easily, so that's what I would do if I were in school now.

[GaryV]

Meijer didn't have noodles this week.  Normal everyday noodles.

[SSOWorld]

Oh Deere...

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/more-10-000-deere-co-workers-strike-after-failed-uaw-n1281486

I can't blame them for wanting some more...John Deere green.

They were.  Rejected the agreement - again

[vdeane]

At Missouri State, we shared work with email too. Which is free and works on any computer. I think some professors had some sort of Web application (Blackboard, maybe?) that you could upload work to as well. In any event, we weren't required to spend our own money on anything; the dorms had a few computers you could use, or you could head over to the computer science building and use the lab there.

Wake Tech uses Blackboard but it's WAY too slow to upload large files like PhotoShop and Illustrator. I use OneDrive to upload stuff (We get Onedrive free forever. 1tb!)

Why would you need a smart monitor to upload something to OneDrive?