Empty store shelves in some US states
According to IRNA on Monday, the American publication Yu. اس. “Once again, you will not be able to find the goods you need in the store, as the world enters its second year of the Covid-19 pandemic, with most of the ingredients needed, whether edible or not,” eToday wrote. Foods are rarely found due to global supply shortages.
Tinglong Da, a professor of business at Johns Hopkins University, told Yu. اس. Concerns over supply chain supply (within the United States), E. Today said; One is due to the high volume of goods remaining in the western ports of the United States, including Los Angeles, the other is the widespread blackouts and lack of electricity throughout China, the shortage of truck drivers and service workers; And finally, the limitations that Covid-19 disease has caused.
The Hopkins University professor added that the cost of transporting goods has risen sharply and demand for goods has exceeded that of suppliers.
you. اس. At the same time, food prices are rising due to labor shortages, supply chain problems, and bad weather (especially droughts and wildfires in the American West).
Deficiencies in the frozen food sector
Rodney Holcomb, a food economist at the University of Oklahoma, also said that public concern over the Delta strain had led some customers to buy more non-food items. It is common to see the purchase of frozen packaged foods that are more consumed during an epidemic of a disease, which is another factor in the shortage of goods and food (in the United States).
Problems importing raw food to the United States
you. اس. The import of foodstuffs such as seafood and fish from Canada and Alaska and goods such as coffee from Brazil, in addition to transportation problems, also faced issues such as drought on Brazilian farms to produce this raw material and transport foodstuffs, eToday reported. Aquatic due to customs disputes between Canada and the United States has led to restrictions on transportation and even suspension, and this can become one of the permanent shortages in the field of aquatic food in the United States.
There was no crisis for truck drivers in America
In a report in August, the Bloomberg News website reported that the United States was seriously and unprecedentedly facing a crisis in the absence of truck drivers affected by the Corona virus epidemic, adding to concerns about the supply of basic goods in the country.
Labor crisis in the United States; 20 million resignations in five months
Another critical factor in the supply of goods and food in the United States is the labor crisis in the United States, so that the labor force in the United States has left its jobs in an unprecedented way in recent months, and according to US Department of Labor statistics in only two Last spring and summer, 20 million resignations were registered.
The American Wall Street Journal reported on October 15, 1400: Job vacancies by the US labor force reached a record, between April and August alone, according to federal government data, nearly 20 million people left. Jobs and resignations were registered by the US labor force.
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