Is America Running Out Of Everything?

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Derek Thompson, The Atlantic: America Is Running Out of Everything 

Is it just me, or does it feel like America is running out of everything?

I visited CVS last week to pick up some at-home COVID-19 tests. They’d been sold out for a week, an employee told me. So I asked about paper towels. “We’re out of those too,” he said. “Try Walgreens.” I drove to a Walgreens that had paper towels. But when I asked a pharmacist to fill some very common prescriptions, he told me the store had run out. “Try the Target up the road,” he suggested. Target’s pharmacy had the meds, but its front area was alarmingly barren, like the canned-food section of a grocery store one hour before a hurricane makes landfall.  

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WNU Editor: I had to replace the oil burner for my furnace. It took six weeks to get the burner. 

The GF works for a company that manufactures high-end swimming pools. They are months behind in finishing their orders. 

There is clearly something wrong with the supply chain, and I do not see it getting better anytime soon.