Tube shortage supposed to ease in September.

Last week I received an e-mail that said that major tube manufacturers
should have tubes back in stock in September. Most stores and online
sellers are out of stock on a lot of tube sizes.

Right now you can see how there are sellers really gouging for no-name
tubes on Amazon. A Schwalbe tube on eBay can go for $20.

At least there are now plenty of masks, rolls of toilet paper, and
bottles of hand sanitizer.

On Mon, 17 Aug 2020 15:25:59 -0700, sms
wrote:

Last week I received an e-mail that said that major tube manufacturers
should have tubes back in stock in September. Most stores and online
sellers are out of stock on a lot of tube sizes.

Right now you can see how there are sellers really gouging for no-name
tubes on Amazon. A Schwalbe tube on eBay can go for $20.

At least there are now plenty of masks, rolls of toilet paper, and
bottles of hand sanitizer.

That is something I've wondered about. Shortages of toilet paper in
the U.S. as while I'm not usually greatly interested in toilet paper
on the supermarket shelves the mention here did prompt me to look and
in two major supermarkets here there were whole isles dedicated to
toilet paper.

Do USians use more toilet paper then we do here? Bigger behind? (The
term "Horse's Ass" does come to mind here) Or is it that toilet paper
is imported from China and The Golden Boy's efforts in provoking the
Yellow Peril led to a shortage of this desperately needed product?
--
Cheers,

John B.

On Tue, 18 Aug 2020 06:23:53 +0700, John B.
wrote:

On Mon, 17 Aug 2020 15:25:59 -0700, sms
wrote:

Last week I received an e-mail that said that major tube manufacturers
should have tubes back in stock in September. Most stores and online
sellers are out of stock on a lot of tube sizes.

Right now you can see how there are sellers really gouging for no-name
tubes on Amazon. A Schwalbe tube on eBay can go for $20.

At least there are now plenty of masks, rolls of toilet paper, and
bottles of hand sanitizer.

That is something I've wondered about. Shortages of toilet paper in
the U.S. as while I'm not usually greatly interested in toilet paper
on the supermarket shelves the mention here did prompt me to look and
in two major supermarkets here there were whole isles dedicated to
toilet paper.

Stupid Spell Checker. Read Aisles for Isles :-(

Do USians use more toilet paper then we do here? Bigger behind? (The
term "Horse's Ass" does come to mind here) Or is it that toilet paper
is imported from China and The Golden Boy's efforts in provoking the
Yellow Peril led to a shortage of this desperately needed product?
--
Cheers,

John B.

On 8/17/2020 6:23 PM, John B. wrote:
On Mon, 17 Aug 2020 15:25:59 -0700, sms
wrote:

Last week I received an e-mail that said that major tube manufacturers
should have tubes back in stock in September. Most stores and online
sellers are out of stock on a lot of tube sizes.

Right now you can see how there are sellers really gouging for no-name
tubes on Amazon. A Schwalbe tube on eBay can go for $20.

At least there are now plenty of masks, rolls of toilet paper, and
bottles of hand sanitizer.

That is something I've wondered about. Shortages of toilet paper in
the U.S. as while I'm not usually greatly interested in toilet paper
on the supermarket shelves the mention here did prompt me to look and
in two major supermarkets here there were whole isles dedicated to
toilet paper.

Do USians use more toilet paper then we do here? Bigger behind? (The
term "Horse's Ass" does come to mind here) Or is it that toilet paper
is imported from China and The Golden Boy's efforts in provoking the
Yellow Peril led to a shortage of this desperately needed product?
--
Cheers,

John B.


There wasn't a shortage so much as a misallocation. Half the
product was in offices, schools, restaurants and their
suppliers of institutional package TP. A local grocery
bought toms of that bulk pack product, rewrapped and priced
it and was never out. Others weren't so creative.

See also beer kegs. There was a billion dollars worth of
beer in kegs stranded in various arenas, bars, clubs and
wholesale warehouses which went bad. The beer was a loss but
the brewers mostly wanted their $100+ each kegs back. That
took a while.

--
Andrew Muzi
www.yellowjersey.org/
Open every day since 1 April, 1971

On Monday, August 17, 2020 at 5:34:11 PM UTC-7, AMuzi wrote:
On 8/17/2020 6:23 PM, John B. wrote:
On Mon, 17 Aug 2020 15:25:59 -0700, sms
wrote:

Last week I received an e-mail that said that major tube manufacturers
should have tubes back in stock in September. Most stores and online
sellers are out of stock on a lot of tube sizes.

Right now you can see how there are sellers really gouging for no-name
tubes on Amazon. A Schwalbe tube on eBay can go for $20.

At least there are now plenty of masks, rolls of toilet paper, and
bottles of hand sanitizer.

That is something I've wondered about. Shortages of toilet paper in
the U.S. as while I'm not usually greatly interested in toilet paper
on the supermarket shelves the mention here did prompt me to look and
in two major supermarkets here there were whole isles dedicated to
toilet paper.

Do USians use more toilet paper then we do here? Bigger behind? (The
term "Horse's Ass" does come to mind here) Or is it that toilet paper
is imported from China and The Golden Boy's efforts in provoking the
Yellow Peril led to a shortage of this desperately needed product?
--
Cheers,

John B.


There wasn't a shortage so much as a misallocation. Half the
product was in offices, schools, restaurants and their
suppliers of institutional package TP. A local grocery
bought toms of that bulk pack product, rewrapped and priced
it and was never out. Others weren't so creative.

See also beer kegs. There was a billion dollars worth of
beer in kegs stranded in various arenas, bars, clubs and
wholesale warehouses which went bad. The beer was a loss but
the brewers mostly wanted their $100+ each kegs back. That
took a while.

The toilet paper shortage in Portland was caused by hoarding and occurred before the stay at home order. All sorts of staples were hoarded. Long before I started working from home, buying a bag of rice was difficult.

I'm hoping there is a tube glut when the plague is over because even before the shortage, prices were too high -- and now they're ridiculous.

BIKE RELATED CONTENT! Is that Slime glue any good compared to Rema fluid? It is supposed to be a cold vulcanizing fluid labeled as rubber cement, or so I'm told. It's cheap -- and there are some other cold vulcanizing fluids that aren't as expensive as Rema. Is anyone using an off-brand?

-- Jay Beattie.

On Mon, 17 Aug 2020 19:34:07 -0500, AMuzi wrote:

On 8/17/2020 6:23 PM, John B. wrote:
On Mon, 17 Aug 2020 15:25:59 -0700, sms
wrote:

Last week I received an e-mail that said that major tube manufacturers
should have tubes back in stock in September. Most stores and online
sellers are out of stock on a lot of tube sizes.

Right now you can see how there are sellers really gouging for no-name
tubes on Amazon. A Schwalbe tube on eBay can go for $20.

At least there are now plenty of masks, rolls of toilet paper, and
bottles of hand sanitizer.

That is something I've wondered about. Shortages of toilet paper in
the U.S. as while I'm not usually greatly interested in toilet paper
on the supermarket shelves the mention here did prompt me to look and
in two major supermarkets here there were whole isles dedicated to
toilet paper.

Do USians use more toilet paper then we do here? Bigger behind? (The
term "Horse's Ass" does come to mind here) Or is it that toilet paper
is imported from China and The Golden Boy's efforts in provoking the
Yellow Peril led to a shortage of this desperately needed product?
--
Cheers,

John B.


There wasn't a shortage so much as a misallocation. Half the
product was in offices, schools, restaurants and their
suppliers of institutional package TP. A local grocery
bought toms of that bulk pack product, rewrapped and priced
it and was never out. Others weren't so creative.

See also beer kegs. There was a billion dollars worth of
beer in kegs stranded in various arenas, bars, clubs and
wholesale warehouses which went bad. The beer was a loss but
the brewers mostly wanted their $100+ each kegs back. That
took a while.

I had assumed, from posts here, that the problem was, simply, that
the U.S. ran out of toilet paper. Which seemed a puzzle as here the
stores were "full" of it.

Here, beer comes in cans and bottles and while the sale of alcoholic
beverages was banned for a month or so the stacks of cases in MACRO,
the major wholesale store here, weren't hauled away and new stacks
substituted so I assume that beer in bottles must last a while :-)
--
Cheers,

John B.

On Monday, August 17, 2020 at 10:07:56 PM UTC-4, John B. wrote:
I had assumed, from posts here, that the problem was, simply, that
the U.S. ran out of toilet paper. Which seemed a puzzle as here the
stores were "full" of it.

There was a toilet paper shortage only because people were hoarding toilet paper. And the only reason people were hoarding toilet people and was because people were hoarding toilet paper.

Fashion is weird and powerful.

- Frank Krygowski

On Mon, 17 Aug 2020 19:28:59 -0700 (PDT), Frank Krygowski
wrote:

On Monday, August 17, 2020 at 10:07:56 PM UTC-4, John B. wrote:
I had assumed, from posts here, that the problem was, simply, that
the U.S. ran out of toilet paper. Which seemed a puzzle as here the
stores were "full" of it.

There was a toilet paper shortage only because people were hoarding toilet paper. And the only reason people were hoarding toilet people and was because people were hoarding toilet paper.

Fashion is weird and powerful.

- Frank Krygowski

A friend sent some jokes for the new year. One of them was "I can't
believe that people's survival instincts told them to grab toilet
paper" :-)

Another was "I can't believe that the comment "I wouldn't touch
her/him with a 10 foot pole" would become national policy :-)
--
Cheers,

John B.

On 8/17/2020 4:23 PM, John B. wrote:

Do USians use more toilet paper then we do here? Bigger behind? (The
term "Horse's Ass" does come to mind here) Or is it that toilet paper
is imported from China and The Golden Boy's efforts in provoking the
Yellow Peril led to a shortage of this desperately needed product?

It was a bizarre reaction to the pandemic that fed on itself. Normally I
expect that most people buy more toilet paper when they only have a few
rolls left. But once the crazy people began panic buying of toilet paper
it made the normal people anxious because they didn't have stockpiles so
they began buying more of it as well.

It is not imported from China, so the BLOTUS (Biggest Liar Of The U.S.)
had nothing to do with the shortage.

On Tuesday, August 18, 2020 at 4:01:46 AM UTC+2, jbeattie wrote:

BIKE RELATED CONTENT! Is that Slime glue any good compared to Rema fluid? It is supposed to be a cold vulcanizing fluid labeled as rubber cement, or so I'm told. It's cheap -- and there are some other cold vulcanizing fluids that aren't as expensive as Rema. Is anyone using an off-brand?

-- Jay Beattie.

Wow is it so bad that you have cut back on rubber cement? How much do you use? One or two small tubes a year? Getting cheaper ones will save you a lot ;-)

Lou