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welcome to the cotkey ride home for wednesday January 19th, 2022. I'm Jackson Bird today.

From French fries to snow plows, the global shortages continue. But are we starting to see the

beginning of a whole new world for workers and the supply chain? Plus, you know what kind of soup you can never

be short of? The kind that doesn't exist. And what is going on with the 5G rollout at US airports?

Here are some of the cool things from the news today.

It's been a while since I've done a shortage report, but the shortages have continued,

and in some sectors are ramping up again. Beef, potatoes, lumber, even snow plows are all in short

supply at the moment. I was talking to a friend the other day, and she mentioned that our local

grocery store was completely out of chicken. Just totally bare shelves, not a drumstick in sight.

We both thought maybe she'd gone on the day before they restock the poultry, or that this

particular grocery store was having issues. Maybe another one in the neighborhood would be better.

After all, tons of drugstores and pharmacies in our area keep closing, so it's clear that

stores are struggling. But what didn't occur to us in the moment and absolutely should have

was that it was probably the supply chain. Meats and fresh produce are the toughest to find

on grocery store shelves right now, but it's not due to a lack of food.

It's a lack of people working at all levels of the supply chain between farm and store.

Demand for groceries has risen 50% since the start of the pandemic, and yet the country's trucking companies are operating

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