can't can?
Fri Jul 24 18:21:45 EDT 2020
We're having a shortage of cans - for canned goods (soup, chili, vegetables, etc). There's also a shortage of labels for the cans. The pandemic has increased the demand for long-storage, quick-fix foods.New supply-chain crisis during pandemic: not enough cans for food
Wholesale manufacturers and distributors are running out of empty cans to pack nonperishable foods that so many Americans are buying in bulk.
Specifically, raw materials like steel and tin from China are scarce, as are made-in-China labels that go on food cans.
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We're having a shortage of cans - for canned goods (soup, chili, vegetables, etc). There's also a shortage of labels for the cans. The pandemic has increased the demand for long-storage, quick-fix foods.New supply-chain crisis during pandemic: not enough cans for food
Wholesale manufacturers and distributors are running out of empty cans to pack nonperishable foods that so many Americans are buying in bulk.
Specifically, raw materials like steel and tin from China are scarce, as are made-in-China labels that go on food cans.
[This entry was originally posted as https://syntonic-comma.dreamwidth.org/1159276.html on Dreamwidth (where there are
comments).]