Joe Heller for October 21, 2021

I would like to buy local. All USA made products. Maybe just a few things from other places that can’t be made here or are indigenous to foreign countries, authentic. Does that make sense? IDK.

I always buy locally when it’s humanly possible. Why send your money someplace else where it will never benefit your own community? The costs if you include shipping and wait times aren’t all that different.

But even brick & mortar stores have to get products from someplace. Expect shortages and wait tines.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/19/investing/supply-chain-economy/index.html

And don’t believe the BS that folks are quitting jobs to live off $600/month checks. First of all most of those payments are done. Secondly, and this should be obvious even to the dumbest and/or grouchiest dimwit, who could live (let alone thrive) on $600/month? Heck, 1 bedroom apartments around here are averaging about $1,400/month alone. Get real and skip the Faux Noose lies for once.

The system wasn’t built for everyone to buy everything at once.

Excellent comic! Absolute truth. Let’s all buy more from our neighbors and local communities. Fun to do. Meet new friends. Just hope our neighborhood retailers can get product.

My brother went to 3 liquor stores looking for his favorite beer; only to learn it’s stuck in Pennsylvania waiting for a trucker. I told him he could visit the local Coors plant.

Couldn’t get Negra Modelo w/ dinner at a Oaxacan food restaurant last night. Spouse proposed “Supply chain problems”. I think more likely they are just over-busy and falling down on the ordering job. They also had several wine selections that “we are out right now”… and their Especial del día (chile verde) turned out to be a chicken enchilada w/ green sauce.

Buying local is good if you can. Note, however, that one of the things the creator CLEARLY intended for us to have is chocolate with raspberries… and you can’t get them both in the same place without transporting one of them. And don’t get me started on which coffee is grown in the mid latitudes and used most extensively much nearer the poles.

Has anyone seen reports of cargo backups on the east coast or in the gulf ports? Or even north of California? If they are happening the media has not covered the stories.

Absent such information I have to wonder why we are treating this like a “national” problem.

Support your local small businessmen and farmers. They’re close enough that you can go to them, without having to wait for shipping…

“Buy local”?

Tell me where i can buy a locally-made TV

What we should do is “one thing” (actually, a whole group of things). What we will do is nothing… because we’ve been trained (notice that I didn’t say “taught”) to reject any action which does not have immediate results.

How about Buy Used or perhaps use the old thing longer, and get it repaired when it breaks, instead of replacing it?!

I get and support what Mr. Heller is advocating, but he really should have said “Build Local” or “Manufacture Local.” It’s the giant corporations that have damaged our economy and left us exposed to the logistics crash by moving so much of their manufacturing overseas, especially technology and bras, the latter being 100% manufactured overseas.

When I moved back to Canada after school in the US, I discovered that the law in most Canadian provinces allowed the sale of beer only in government liquor stores, and those stores would stock only beer brewed in the province. I bought a six-pack of Carlsberg beer, and found that it tasted nothing like the Carlsberg I had tasted in Denmark. I then discovered that it had been produced by a local brewery, under licence, and adjusted “to Canadian taste.” My mind was just boggled by the idea of an international brand “adjusted” to taste just like a local one. (Things are much better now, although many of the local “craft” breweries are being bought up by the big companies, many of which are international. Ironic, I guess…)

merchandise isn’t made local anymore…how can we buy local???

Maybe paying workers a living wage would help. Nobody is worth a million dollars a years.

Ice cold Beer is Beer when you’re thirsty.

My local Italian Import store has been having trouble getting products….some of their shelves are slowly emptying….as far as Costco….lots of “out of stock” signs every where.

Very few products are completely locally-made unfortunately, supplies to make locally-made products can come from elsewhere

This is what we need to do more, buy locally and use the barter system. Instead of relying on the big companies.

Like the Monty Python joke , why is American beer like making love in a canoe – it’ effing near water .