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US Faces New Supply Crisis after Baby Formula Shortage – report The US is experiencing a severe deficit of tampons, with an extremely successful ad campaign being cited as one of the factors contributing to the shortages, TIME magazine claimed earlier this week. Rising costs of transportation have made delivery of the products to the US more expensive. The CEO of startup The Organic Project, Thyme Sullivan, told TIME that the cost of getting its tampons to the US is up 300% from last year. In addition to that, manufacturers are also struggling with staff shortages amid the rising demand for its products. “Increased demand, staffing shortages, raw material shortages – none of these factors are unique to tampons. Yet what makes the tampon shortage so persistent and problematic is that unlike most other items that the supply chain has made it hard to access, tampons are not something women can stop buying until supplies return,” TIME explains. Subscribe to RT t.me/rtnews

The US is experiencing a severe deficit of tampons, with an extremely successful ad campaign being cited as one of the factors contributing to the shortages, TIME magazine claimed earlier this week.

Rising costs of transportation have made delivery of the products to the US more expensive. The CEO of startup The Organic Project, Thyme Sullivan, told TIME that the cost of getting its tampons to the US is up 300% from last year.

In addition to that, manufacturers are also struggling with staff shortages amid the rising demand for its products.

“Increased demand, staffing shortages, raw material shortages – none of these factors are unique to tampons. Yet what makes the tampon shortage so persistent and problematic is that unlike most other items that the supply chain has made it hard to access, tampons are not something women can stop buying until supplies return,” TIME explains.

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    • Godless_Nematode@lemmy.ml
      9·
      2 years ago

      US is not failing. It is being highly successful at what it was designed to do. Unfortunately, that success was not meant to include most of us.

  • Stalinist_Dishrag
    5·
    2 years ago

    Welp, I guess now is a good time to get into reuseable period products (cloth pads, menstrual cups, etc.).

  • darkcalling
    4·
    2 years ago

    Good thing for menstrual cups and period panties I guess. Of course its awful if all you know is tampons as finding the right cup can take time and significant money sometimes so it’s not something everyone can just replace right away.