What products have you had trouble finding in stores because of global supply chain disruptions?

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I report on the Swiss pharmaceutical industry and healthcare topics such as access to medicine, biomedical innovation, and the impact of diseases like cancer. I grew up just outside San Francisco and studied international affairs with a focus on development economics and healthcare policy. Prior to joining SWI swissinfo.ch in 2018, I was a freelance journalist and a researcher on business and human rights.

Deutsch

Welche Produkte konnten Sie nur schwer in den Geschäften finden?
Français

Rencontrez-vous des difficultés à trouver certains produits en magasin en raison des perturbations de la chaîne d’approvisionnement mondiale? Quels sont-ils?
Italiano

Quali prodotti faticate a trovare nei negozi a causa di problemi di approvvigionamento?
العربية

ما هي المنتجات التي واجهت صعوبة في العثور عليها في المتاجر بسبب اضطرابات سلسلة التوريد العالمية؟
中文

全球供应链中断让您在商店寻找哪些商品时遇到困难？

Many countries are reporting huge delays in receiving products due to congestion at ports, a lack of truck drivers, and warehouses filled to the brim. Some experts argue that the pandemic exposed existing vulnerabilities in complex global supply chains and huge risks of just-in-time delivery of goods.

What’s been your experience? Have you faced higher prices or shortages of certain products and if so, what products and in what city? What’s your view of the problems?

From the article Switzerland ‘not at risk of truck driver shortage’

olafmmorf 2022-01-19 14:04

The following contribution has been automatically translated from DE.

Appenzeller Biberli

Fanol_21 2021-11-11 13:49

The following contribution has been automatically translated from FR.

Yeah, I had a hard time finding crackers. Apparently we were out of imports.

Oui, j'ai eu du mal à trouver des biscottes. On en importait plus apparemment.

Anonymous 2021-11-10 17:00

Fresh Thailand Jasmin rice has stopped coming. All we have in the asian shops are "old" expired rice (which is still edible but hard).

LynxVegas 2021-10-21 10:37

I've had trouble finding many things for years, as is there quite simply less choice. Small country syndrome. I've wandered around local supermarkets bored, looking for something else. Once the Coop had bacon and egg sandwiches. No more. I once contacted Findus directly to see if they would supply more fish products. That worked for a while. When I visit the UK, I tell my family to leave me in the local supermarket for a while, marvelling at the choice.

Jessica Davis Plüss SWI SWISSINFO.CH 2021-10-21 21:17

@LynxVegas

Thanks for sharing. It's always fun to visit supermarkets in different countries. I'm curious - Do you think that there is a faster turnover of products in stores now than in the past? Or is it simply that there are less choices?

LynxVegas 2021-10-26 10:24

@Jessica Davis Plüss

The lack of choice could be Swiss. At voting time, for example, they tend to stick to the Status Quo. A restaurant in Farmerville once tried to offer up-market, alternative food. They failed and went back to e.g. cordon bleu and pomme frites - typical Swiss food. Swiss shops - 99% the same produce. Sandwiches - for years (and still in many places) - ham, egg, salami, tuna. Very little else. So, maybe the customers do not like variety, which is why there is little choice.

Frank-11 2021-10-31 13:32

I used to work in an office very near to a Migros, no other shop nearby except for an overly expensive snack shop for passing tourists. Going into the Migros to get a sandwich for lunch was a truly depressing experience. As you wrote below: ham, egg, salami, tuna.

I visited a Migros recently and it was a bit better. Manor sandwiches are good, but an M&S range of sarnies would be like heaven!

Anonymous 2021-11-04 09:24

The underlying reason is very simple.
Swiss people eat to live and not live to eat.
The food here is very boring (and super expensive).

Having said that, if we compare the european and american cuisine (if we dare call them cuisine) pales in comparison to the food available in Asia and Arab countries.

@Frank-11

I have learned to accept this or just make my own lunch.

xekeda3759@oemmeo.com 2021-10-18 21:58

A bunch of computer components, especially graphics cards. So it has been hard to replace some broken family computers.

LoL 2021-10-18 10:49

New video cards for pc is non existent, new mining machines too, ps5 is now a present my many companies if you use their service because it is impossible to buy for consumer but thous companies manage to go around and get them, galaxus even had youtube add about ps5 and it was a lie, there is no eve a date then they are available. Many scam on kicktarter now use this excuse for 2 years going unnoticed. Overall prices for new ingredients needed to build your own pc are now hard to buy and the price is doubled or so, same for electronic music instruments or video equipment