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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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.
I don’t know if I agree. If the masses can’t eat or house themselves, there will be a revolt.
At this point living here is like being on a roller coaster going up a hill that doesn’t have any rails at the bottom. We’re long overdue for a revolt.