GA Firing Line

What do you do

  • Hover

    Votes: 3 12.5%
  • Wipe and sit

    Votes: 10 41.7%
  • Birdnest

    Votes: 5 20.8%
  • eww, i'm to uppidy to use a public tiolet

    Votes: 6 25.0%

  • Total voters
    24

mark23

Kalash Klub Babysitter
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Sep 24, 2015
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Yes
Multiple reasons.

Aluminum and can shortage. It affects not just the drinks.
I knew that canned drink shortage was coming in May. It is finally here. Check the Coke and Pepsi selection. Main lines are here, anything less popular is gone. Tab has been discontinued. Kroger pop made with real sugar is gone (contract manufacturer needs cans for more profitable lines).
Keep an eye out at the grocery store. House brands will get limits and then disappear first, since they are contract produced, and are secondary income for a lot companies. Canned goods limits disappeared in Aldi in August. They are back now. Smaller chain, less purchasing power for contract manufacturing.

Not as many crops were put in the spring as before. A lot of planting still done by hand (someone has to put seedlings into the planter, or ride behind the tractor putting them in). Lock downs and stimulus payments kept people out of the fields and not interested in work, both for planting and for harvesting.
Some of what was put in was lost in the fires on the west coast. Canneries are build close to the fields too.

PS there are multiple shortages in the supply chain that consumers have not seen yet. Or if they have, it did not register.
Tractor supply has been out of most fencing since spring. It is either made in US out of foreign sourced material or made overseas. Both are in short supply.
Plastic bottles (not just for drinks) are made in US, but capsules from which they are blown come from overseas.
Noticed any difference in packaging used for cooking oil or vitamins vs a year ago? I have.

We don't eat much out of a can anyway. If you're saying a general food supply issue is coming then stocking up on canned items makes sense.
 

Miles

Ninja
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Kalash Klub
Jul 20, 2016
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Coke has been crushed by COVID and their sales have nosedived because they aren't selling syrup to restaurants and bars like they used to. They streamlined their product offerings to focus on more profitable offerings. They dumped a whole bunch of staff in the process of going lean. It's not as if they don't have access to cans. It's probably reasonable to assume Pepsi has the same problems. Bottom line is with soft drinks it's a revenue issue more than a supply chain issue.
I agree that closed stadiums and restaurants hurt Coke. Still does not explain shortages of the products on the shelf.
Kroger in Carrollton.
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3x

Sasquatch
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Oct 14, 2019
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The Diddle Shack
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I agree that closed stadiums and restaurants hurt Coke. Still does not explain shortages of the products on the shelf.
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Every business is blaming their fuck ups on COVID, from lack of product to lack of customer service. It's easier to say that there is a can shortage versus certain products not selling.
There might be a can shortage, but that's not something I would take at face value necessarily.
 

3x

Sasquatch
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Kalash Klub
Oct 14, 2019
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The Diddle Shack
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I like my milsurps the best. The history is really cool to me.
They're pretty cool. Sometimes I don't enjoy shooting them as much as just admiring them and wondering what stories they'd tell.
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Other days, I'm like fuck it, these are taking up space and I don't shoot them hardly ever
 

J-P

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Aug 20, 2019
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I like my milsurps the best. The history is really cool to me.

I do as well, and maybe I'm being paranoid but I see things going very very badly for gun owners in the not to distant future. A history collection isn't going to be worth much of anything and I probably won't be able to enjoy it (Since it may have to be buried in the back 40 to keep it out of sight) so might as well cash out if I see it going that way. I hope I am wrong


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2Glocks

Off base and off line
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Kalash Klub
Aug 30, 2019
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Your Mother’s House
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Bout to blow out of the office.

Gotta run by the old house and pick up a few shelves from the garage for the new house, then head up to Home Depot to get some bat-house making supplies for this weekend when the Agriculture class is coming back up, then build the new chicken feeder and put the shelves up in the new garage.

YEEEEHAWWW