| Major Retailers have been busy selling off existing | | | | might wish to rethink our supply chain all over again, |
| inventory and drastically discounting it, and they've | | | | because now that it is stopped, it's going to take a |
| been using these revenues to prop up profits in one | | | | lot to get it back humming again. Oh, sure, I have |
| of the most severe recessions in a decade or so. | | | | every bit of confidence that this will happen, but |
| Unfortunately, they have not been ordering new | | | | things like this don't just happen overnight, unless you |
| inventory for the future and much of the supply | | | | are FEDEX. |
| chain has collapsed. Trucking, rail, cargo ships, and air | | | | Food items and essentials seem to still be running |
| freight traffic all down drastically to record lows like | | | | through the distribution system all right even if things |
| never seen before, well at least in a few decades, | | | | there are also scaled down a bit, but that system |
| things are that bad. | | | | isn't broken like the supply chain for everything else |
| Meanwhile all the manufacturers have stopped | | | | you see. |
| producing and it will take them a while to ramp back | | | | Retailers, those that survive are going to find |
| up once the retailers start ordering again, of course | | | | severely increased costs as things start going again, |
| that will not happen until the consumers start buying | | | | and these costs will be passed on to the consumer |
| again, which won't happen until consumer confidence | | | | and appear to be inflation, although it will really be |
| returns, which isn't likely to happen until credit | | | | artificial inflation caused by a wounded distribution |
| markets free up and people start going back to | | | | system. So, let's hope the FED understands this and |
| work; Interesting indeed. | | | | does not raise interest rates too quickly to curb the |
| And it is for all of these reasons that maybe we | | | | coming inflationary years. Think on this. |