Shop supplies ........ Ouch$$$

[Jimmy in NC]

Everything is relative, the poverty line in San Francisco is $107k a year, stuff costs more or less in place based on many factors. I live next to a cheese factory, it cheaper to buy the milk at a chain store than from anywhere else, milk has been $3 a gallon for years here, sometimes $2 on sale, hell if it was $5 a gallon life wouldn’t change that much. If housing goes up 100k in a year…that’s a killer, or rent goes up $500+ a month, it’s a killer, if you commute at all or drive for work, $1.5 dollars a gallon can kill!! In California people are paying $7 a gallon in places

Now add this to your thoughts:

People that have lived in CA have found they can work remote via the internet. They are now moving to other areas [lots here to central NC] and run the price up for our housing when they bring lots of cash out of a residence in CA. It skews our market at an abnormally fast rate.

Another evil of e-commerce is the leveling of prices across wide area resulting in prices that can be higher in an area than the median home income can afford. This was easiest seen with the automobile market.


It's a conplex issue.

 

[AVB]

And for some of us it is a good thing.

All we as consumers can do is to learn to live within ours means even that means changing the way we do things. In a way this has made me more aware of the costs of things and how OEMs are trying milk us. Even though my sales are up my costs are actually lower through better manage of part purchases. Just last year I went from a net profit margin of under 23% to over 35%.

The current grocery prices has even been good for me as I finally got on a diet that actually losing weight and I am healthier for it.

BTW I haven't used carburetor cleaner in over 7 yrs now; just soap and water in my USC.

 

[Lnk]

And for some of us it is a good thing.

All we as consumers can do is to learn to live within ours means even that means changing the way we do things. In a way this has made me more aware of the costs of things and how OEMs are trying milk us. Even though my sales are up my costs are actually lower through better manage of part purchases. Just last year I went from a net profit margin of under 23% to over 35%.

The current grocery prices has even been good for me as I finally got on a diet that actually losing weight and I am healthier for it.

BTW I haven't used carburetor cleaner in over 7 yrs now; just soap and water in my USC.

No sense in trying to make orange juice with lemons. Make some lemonade instead.

 

[AVB]

No sense in trying to make orange juice with lemons. Make some lemonade instead.

Exactly...Besides lemonade sells well on hot summer days.

 

[Bigmac]

And for some of us it is a good thing.

All we as consumers can do is to learn to live within ours means even that means changing the way we do things. In a way this has made me more aware of the costs of things and how OEMs are trying milk us. Even though my sales are up my costs are actually lower through better manage of part purchases. Just last year I went from a net profit margin of under 23% to over 35%.

The current grocery prices has even been good for me as I finally got on a diet that actually losing weight and I am healthier for it.

BTW I haven't used carburetor cleaner in over 7 yrs now; just soap and water in my USC.

That has been happening for a long time here, Californians moving to Oregon for decades and somewhat driving prices, mainly the beach property, they are used to spending more, and end up driving up the wage base in the area, thats good for the local economy, but makes it difficult for others to afford labor. Agree, e sales and big chain prices keep things more even across the board, 7/16 osb just hit $62, it’s insane!!!

 

[pbillyi69]

Now add this to your thoughts:

People that have lived in CA have found they can work remote via the internet. They are now moving to other areas [lots here to central NC] and run the price up for our housing when they bring lots of cash out of a residence in CA. It skews our market at an abnormally fast rate.

Another evil of e-commerce is the leveling of prices across wide area resulting in prices that can be higher in an area than the median home income can afford. This was easiest seen with the automobile market.


It's a conplex issue.

that has been happening here in oregon for a long time. the houses here cost hundereds of thousands more than they should. i live in an old neigborhood the houses are all a hundred or more and there are several on the national registry. its a nice place and the houses cost a little more due to that fact. but when the cali folks come and get into bidding wars with each othere the house that should be 3 - 4 hunndred sells for 750 or 800k its just so ridiculous my house had a refinance value of 630k last summer it would sell on the open market for 800 or more its dumb to top it off there isnt really any available in the area because they get sold so fast. if i wanted to move i couldnt afford it because i would have to bid against someone with a pile of cash that is going to buy and the knock it down leave one wall and build a house around that wall then knock the wall down after the house is built so it counts as a remodel and doesnt require all of the permits and taxes. there was a house a block away not a excessivly big house but decent home on a corner lot sold for 1.2m without even being listed. dumb rant over.....grrr lol

 

[Ketchup]

Buy local, reduce consumption, charge what it costs you. What else can we do?

 

[pbillyi69]

i try to buy local as much as i can but the price of buying local has gone up so much its not affordable to do so when one bag of groceries cost 100 i cant afford that until the bubble pops. i hate going to walmart for stuff because they dont treat their employees well at all but its almost impossible not to go there because some things cost almost half as much

 

[Bigmac]

Buy local, reduce consumption, charge what it costs you. What else can we do?

It’s all you can do, but that will also increase the cost for things in the area as well, the local economy will grow. But everything will inflate. I hate to say it, but the only thing that will stop it is competition, or something that curbs demand, either a recession, or flood the market until demand has reached a surplus. not sure what’s going to win

 

[MarcS]

Trillions of printed dollars and simultaneously shutting down the entire world economy for a year or so. Very surprising there are problems associated with that!

 

[Stevetheboatguy]

Welp..... Everybody in my local has jacked their prices. But was able to get a few cases normal price at the Wal-Mart after church. Should last me the year I hope.



Steven

 

[dahmer]

 

[Lnk]

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Sign of the times, good times will come around again.

Good times makes weak men,
Weak men make hard times,
Hard times makes strong men,
Strong men make good times!

Rinse, repeat. Hang in there guys.

 

[redline4]

My bike needs a new rear tire, my Dad's needs a new front.
Both have been on order from our motorcycle shop since we put them away late October.

 

[pbillyi69]

the tires are probably sitting in a shipping container waiting to dock and get unloaded

 

[redline4]

the tires are probably sitting in a shipping container waiting to dock and get unloaded

Nope.
Dunlop. Made in U.S.

 

[dahmer]

Nope.
Dunlop. Made in U.S.

https://www.news4jax.com/news/local...g-tire-supply-issues-at-stores-dealers-in-us/

 

[Ford3000]

In one month Rural King bar and chain oil went from $4.99 to $7.99.

I experienced the same thing last bar oil I bought, heating oil
has gone up 50% in the past 5 years here, the most of that in the past two.
Everything else has also been hiked, have been looking into ways to cut
back but can't really do much more than I am, less become a hermit.

 

[redline4]

https://www.news4jax.com/news/local...g-tire-supply-issues-at-stores-dealers-in-us/

Being an auto tech, I've seen first hand the lack of tire availability there.

 

[pbillyi69]

Nope.
Dunlop. Made in U.S.

so then they are probably sittingin a container waiting on a train... lol