KANSAS CITY CONFRONTS CHIP SHORTAGE REDUX!!!

We all know that the global microchip shortage is ongoing and still ruining the American auto industry . . . But there is a threat more dire and insidious looming on the horizon of this cowtown.

To wit . . .

YET ANOTHER DEVASTATING SNACK CHIP SHORTAGE THREATENS KANSAS CITY!!!

Let's not forget that this Summer a strike at a nearby Frito-Lay plant took all of the quality chips from metro convenience store shelves . . . 

Loyal readers may not remember but TKC tragically reflects on openly weeping outside of a local QT as I searched for Cheetos in vain.

Now . . . 

The ongoing impact of COVID, a less than stellar potato crop and ongoing problems in the supply chain threaten to make snack chips scarce during the holiday season.

Here's confirmation of the trend and a bit of an economic explanation . . . 

“The most elementary rule of economics is the affiliation between supply, demand, and prices. If there’s suddenly less of one item that a lot of people covet, it naturally gets more expensive to the consumer. At the same time, ingrained shortages in the marketplace encourages suppliers to increase prices in order to win a larger share of buyers in the market. This year’s shortage of chips has turned all that into a full blown economic tsunami.”

Translation . . . 

The heart clogging snack item that powers most of this blog's productivity will become an increasingly expensive commodity.

Accordingly . . .

We believe this might be one of the most distressing threats confronting our republic.

Debates over liberty, science, pandemics and politics are one thing . . . They usually get boring when it's clear that people aren't going to start slap-fighting and it becomes unlikely that a nipple will pop out.

However . . . 

A price spike on snack chips imposed on Americans will most CERTAINLY bring about a near-revolutionary level of whining outcry & revolt. 

Developing . . .