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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Uhm can’t they just take the bike. It’s really not that hard and we all need to do our part.
Seriously this is horrific. Baby formula and tampons - these are like the bare bones most basic necessities. The level of instability in the US and its total inability to provide even the most fundamental needs for its citizens, while waging and funding wars and regime changes around the globe is staggering. All while US children are being slaughtered in their schools every damn week.
Honestly, how the fuck is this supposed to last another decade?