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A couple of years ago, big-box retailers started to go out of business in the UK. Furniture stores, department stores and DIY.
At the time, it was blamed on lower footfall because of online shopping, but all of the above had
A couple of years ago, big-box retailers started to go out of business in the UK. Furniture stores, department stores and DIY.
At the time, it was blamed on lower footfall because of online shopping, but all of the above had
an online presence. All businesses were sold.
Two years on, it turns out that freight by shipping container from China (where all of those shops’ goods were manufactured) has quadrupled in price, with shipping containers ‘getting stuck’ in western markets because of
Two years on, it turns out that freight by shipping container from China (where all of those shops’ goods were manufactured) has quadrupled in price, with shipping containers ‘getting stuck’ in western markets because of
‘Covid’ after Christmas deliveries, which start shipping in late September.
But there are no reports of slowdowns of inland container handling.
This raised the issue of whether - as the fear narrative would suggest - the containers *were* inland and were full of eg weapons
But there are no reports of slowdowns of inland container handling.
This raised the issue of whether - as the fear narrative would suggest - the containers *were* inland and were full of eg weapons
ahead of a ground assault from the CCP. But that doesn’t really play because if someone like me can make that connection, the military made it before the ships sailed.
So what if the container shortage is connected to something else, like the reported fact that two of the
So what if the container shortage is connected to something else, like the reported fact that two of the
big container lines (
+?) have been used for child trafficking?
If this is the case, those lines’ assets have most likely been seized and the business flow is still being stitched back together for appearances, with many of the containers impounded as evidence.
What makes
+?) have been used for child trafficking?If this is the case, those lines’ assets have most likely been seized and the business flow is still being stitched back together for appearances, with many of the containers impounded as evidence.
What makes
this more compelling is that the big-box retailers acted two years ago as if they knew their business models were going to become unviable. If you sell cheap imported goods, freight is always the margin maker or killer.
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