What Shortages Are Coming Winter 2021?

On Aug 25, 2022

Shortages :

Computer chips. Lots at car dealers sit nearly empty in California. …
Jet fuel. A worker walks by tanker trucks that are being filled with gasoline at an oil refinery in Utah. …
Nike shoes. Nike shoes displayed at a Macy’s in California. …
School supplies. Back-to-school supplies are displayed at a Target last year. …
Taco Bell. A Taco Bell in New York City. …

Computer chips. Lots at car dealers sit nearly empty in California.
Jet fuel. A worker walks by tanker trucks that are being filled with gasoline at an oil refinery in Utah.
Nike shoes. Nike shoes displayed at a Macy’s in California.
School supplies. Back-to-school supplies are displayed at a Target last year.
Taco Bell. A Taco Bell in New York City.

Items likely to be in Short Supply During a National Emergency. Generators (Good ones cost dearly. Gas storage, risky. Noisy target of thieves; maintenance etc.) Water Filters/Purifiers. Portable Toilets. Seasoned Firewood. Wood takes about 6 – 12 months to become dried, for home uses.

Shortages 2022: 5 products expected to be in tight supply this year

Semiconductors. Sky-high demand for computer chips is expected to keep supply tight through the rest of the year.
Aluminum. Tight supply of aluminum has created problems for the construction industry and for beverage makers who have had trouble getting their hands on enough aluminum cans.
Food products.
Plastics.
Building materials.

It looks like food shortages have continued into 2022. This is what might be causing the issue. After some signs of a slow and cautious return to pre-pandemic normalcy last year, the beginning of 2022 is looking remarkably like fall 2020—and that means supply issues at grocery stores.

What is the computer chip shortage?

Jonathan Ernst/Reuters. An ongoing computer-chip shortage has affected cars, iPads, and dog-washing technology alike . Chipmakers like Intel had already seen production issues pre-pandemic, but as with many industries, COVID-19 brought a variety of new supply-chain issues.

Copy Link. Empty shelves and shoppers at a Target store in Dublin, California, on March 15, 2020. As the US economy increasingly reopens, it is seeing shortages of all sorts of items. If you’ve tried to buy (or rent) a car or eat some chicken wings, you’ve probably noticed.

Last month, Proctor & Gamble said it would raise prices for baby-care and feminine-care products , as well as adult diapers to combat shortages and shipping costs . The same week, Kimberly Clark hiked the price of its Huggies diapers and Scott toilet paper.

In the past year alone, the median cost of a home in the US shot up 15% from $300,000 in 2019 to $340,000 by the end of 2020, according to data from the National Association of Realtors. That measure does not even begin to account for hot housing markets like Austin, Texas, where the average home went for more than $800,000 in April.

Citing data from Mintec, the Financial Times reported that those costs have increased by nearly 40% from the start of 2020, marking “historic highs.”.

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A house’s real estate for sale sign shows the home as being “Under Contract” in Washington, DC, November 19, 2020. Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images. The US was facing a shortage of 3.8 million homes as of April, according to Freddie Mac.