When you rely on china, this can happen!

[davidc4430]

Coronavirus disruption hits store shelves as Australian retailers face 'serious pinch' from COVID-19 outbreak

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-02-25/coronavirus-impact-hits-retail-as-businesses-face-serious-pin...

we are so much reliant on endless ships arriving from china loaded with all the stuff we cant live without and a superbug gets out of control

life as we know it may well end!

[eol-products]

What makes you think this will be a long term thing.

[martinw-48]

Maybe it's because it's getting worse and a vaccine isn't able to be produced in months

[zanadoo_56]

@lionrose.7 wrote:

All clothes made in China these days cant get any thing, made in NZ or Aus unless it is expensive tourist wool Garments

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I buy all my clothes from the op shop or they are given to me, I have so many I wont be relying on buying any new clothes from China for a very long time

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I buy clothes from a US company, and the ones I like the best are from a US manufacturer where all their clothes are proudly made in the US, not China.

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You obviouly have more $$$ than me, I am poor lol

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I doubt it. 🙂  I only buy them when on special or heavily reduced and I only buy a couple of styles.  I'm not interested in fashion - just comfort, so it doesn't bother me that I've got say, five identical dresses or tops where only the colours differ.

[zanadoo_56]

I buy clothes from a US company, and the ones I like the best are from a US manufacturer where all their clothes are proudly made in the US, not China.

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And you're confident they're made by US nationals and not by exploited migrants?

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This post is about availabitily issues due to the coronavirus. 

Of course I can't be certain about who is actually making the clothing in America.

No more than you could be about who is making the clothes in China where safely can fly out the window, workers many not get paid for all the hours they work (especially overtime), or they have to live in domitories owned by their employer and an amount of their wage pays for space little more than the bunk bed they sleep in. *shrugs*

[eol-products]

At some point the world economy will have to start getting back to normal.  Not sure if financial markets can wait for a vaccine and the more countries that shut their borders the longer it will take to rebound from it.

[brerrabbit585]

Most fabric is made in Asia. I'm not sure which countries and it's probably changed since I discussed it with someonea few years, but our cotton(and America's) goes overseas to be processed and made into fabric, then it comes back here, often via the US.

I have no idea where synthetic fabric is made but I reckon it's pretty sure to be made in China as well.

[wide-world-of-stamps]

We went on a shopping trip to a larger town earlier this week, and noticed that shelves in Kmart aren't fully stocked, with quite a few "temporarily out of stock" notifications.

We also went to order a new fridge last week, and the salesperson phoned the warehouse to make sure there was one in stock before submitting the order.

A friend mentioned that they'd been told by relatives in the Brisbane area that disposable coffee cups were in short supply (they work in a cafe).

So there are already quite a few things we wouldn't generally have thought about being affected.

[freddie*rooster]

We have plantation shutters on order 99% of shutters are made in China.

I called our salesman this morning to check if they had received any delay

notifications. They have them down for delivery 30th March so fingers crossed

they arrive without being delayed.

[eol-products]

Disposable coffee cups are made in Australia so they should support local manufacturing. I am the type that would purchase from a vendor that promoted using local products. 

[wide-world-of-stamps]

I have no idea where they're made as I rarely buy coffee, and when I do I generally have it at the cafe.

My post was more about the range of items affected, rather than judging people for their purchasing choices.