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https://apnews.com/article/hea...b07dd927778fb7944c3a
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| (self-titled) semi-posting lurker Minor Deity  |
No, I did not think the title of this thread was "The great piano furniture shortage," why do you ask?  In other news:
 (sorry, I can't imagine spending $5000 on patio furniture...)Back to the topic at hand... my mother has been waiting forever to receive delivery of a sofa she ordered....
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I just read where Ford has started receiving chips to put in the thousands of partially completed trucks they have been storing. I expect to see the price of trucks - especially used trucks - drop substantially.
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Rachel ordered new patio furniture in May. It’ll be here in August and September. And it was ridiculously expensive. Like 7k or a bit more.
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| (self-titled) semi-posting lurker Minor Deity |
Ugh.... I think I posted a while back that we are considering getting a new car... I have been putting it off while we take care of a few other things around the house, and I was thinking we'd start car shopping this month. But I don't know if I'm up for car shopping in a shortage. Ugh.
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There’s a patio furniture store called Fortunoff’s in the NYC area. I am not at all surprised to see prices in the several thousands. I assume their stuff is better than the cheap stuff.
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Rachel did advertising for them many moons ago, specifically for their wedding/engagement jewelry. One add showed Dr Ruth Westheimer in a wedding gown. They tried to get Former mayor Koch but he wouldn’t do it. Wear a bridal gown that is. Seems like a different Fortunoff though - this one was a jewelry store with a 5th Avenue flagship
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I remember that place. In my teenage years, I was up and down Fifth Avenue doing deliveries all the time. | |||
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Patio furniture is insanely expensive. I don't really understand why. It's as expensive as "regular" furniture. | |||
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That is true if you buy the high-end stuff like Brown Jordan. We splurged on a Brown Jordan patio set back we first got married. It was insanely expensive but we figured it would last forever. It did not. What has lasted forever is a cheap (Chinese?) patio set we got at Target maybe 20 years ago. It still looks good and we will probably be moving it to Ohio.
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Forget patio furniture, I am still waiting for a color matched case of caulk that was ordered in March! My siding, window replacement project went on for 9 months, about the time we built a custom built home 30 years ago...sigh.. My contractor ran out so again ordered in March. I hedged my bets and ordered case from Lowes the first of June. Last week I called the manufacturer..I was worried they didn't have any... But no, she said they had it in stock..and "We have LOTS of orders!"...She found one that matched mine but with no eta....  Meanwhile I try to find a painter (who can presumably apply the caulk)...today was my 3rd no show... 
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Greg works for a company that makes packaging equipment, and most of his customers are furniture manufacturers in North Carolina and the Midwest. All of them are shut down because they cannot get foam. People like to blame the supply chain from China for this, but the fact is most foam for furniture does not come from China but instead comes from Louisiana and Texas. Both were hit with the consequences of inadequate infrastructure over the last year and foam plants have yet to recover from either the freeze or the floods.
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Steve speaks sooth. https://www.djournal.com/news/...9e-402547459147.html
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As a side note, it seems some people don’t know that, if you live in a place with cold winters, you should bring your patio furniture indoors. Lasts a lot longer that way.
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The local Chrysler assembly plant was shut down for weeks this spring because they couldn’t get chips. They reopened for a couple weeks and are now shut down again. Same reason.
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