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.
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.
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.
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.
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…)
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.
morningglory73 Premium Member over 2 years ago
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.
Display over 2 years ago
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.
Radish the wordsmith over 2 years ago
The system wasn’t built for everyone to buy everything at once.
Retrac Premium Member over 2 years ago
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.
pamela welch Premium Member over 2 years ago
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.
Concretionist over 2 years ago
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.
Concretionist over 2 years ago
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.
Andylit Premium Member over 2 years ago
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.
ferddo over 2 years ago
Support your local small businessmen and farmers. They’re close enough that you can go to them, without having to wait for shipping…
fairportfan over 2 years ago
“Buy local”?
Tell me where i can buy a locally-made TV
gammaguy over 2 years ago
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.
john_chubb over 2 years ago
How about Buy Used or perhaps use the old thing longer, and get it repaired when it breaks, instead of replacing it?!
dlauber Premium Member over 2 years ago
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.
cherns Premium Member over 2 years ago
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…)
DIF20 over 2 years ago
merchandise isn’t made local anymore…how can we buy local???
randolini Premium Member over 2 years ago
Maybe paying workers a living wage would help. Nobody is worth a million dollars a years.
DIF20 over 2 years ago
Ice cold Beer is Beer when you’re thirsty.
Zebrastripes over 2 years ago
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.
yldchyld Premium Member over 2 years ago
Very few products are completely locally-made unfortunately, supplies to make locally-made products can come from elsewhere
hjmpianoman over 2 years ago
This is what we need to do more, buy locally and use the barter system. Instead of relying on the big companies.
[Unnamed Reader - 8bb69d] over 2 years ago
Like the Monty Python joke , why is American beer like making love in a canoe – it’ effing near water .