Why are new knife inventories so low at retailers?

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Steely_Gunz said:
raw materials in general are going to be an issue for the next year, most likely.
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Yep. All over the place.

My day job is partly dealing with computers - servers that live in data centers, not the friendlier sorts. Lead times are up from ~1 month to 6-10 months with no relief in sight. (Worse, replacement parts for machines we already own are as bad, so it is even hard to make do - we're buying parts in advance, trying to anticipate what might fail.)

And I help some with a family business, where the main product is entirely locally produced, but lots of things that go with it come from elsewhere. That's an utter mess, we're just dropping the accessories for now, even though that kills a lot of the profit. Just can't source some things right now, especially as a little shop.

As it turns out, if you spend a couple of decades methodically tuning your business to not keep inventory or materials on hand, you're going to have a problem when supplies are disrupted.

If everyone does it, everyone has lots of problems.
 
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rje58 said:
"It's a fundamental economic principle that when supply exceeds demand for a good or service, prices fall. When demand exceeds supply, prices rise."
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Yeah, the old Supply-Demand Curve seems obvious, but a lot of people are pointing fingers in any other direction.

Of course regardless of where the knife is made, everybody is competing for steel. And the lack of trucks affects interstate commerce as well as international commerce.
 
It's not just the USA, I am in the UK And it's a nightmare here. The left blame it on Brexit but that's only 5% of it... you only have to look to Europe and its just as bad 👎 This is a Global supply/labour shortage... Use this time to save your money or pay over the odds! (as if we will ;) ) in the building game we couldn't get hold of gypsum plaster! we make it here!?!?! my English mate that lives in Maine 🇺🇸 is a carpenter and said materials have doubled or more.... global world 🌎
 
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