Supply and Prices

[jaybreak]

Something quick to note here, might just be local or regional to us. Wife and I were shopping for a new car--long story, but we're having unmanageable issues with our current one, and it's better for us to trade it in than mess around with it much longer--and it's been interesting. The car purchase price itself was a little higher than we expected, but the supply of cars (any cars) is dismal. Lots of waiting for new cars that will come weeks or months down the road, and not much to select from in the first place. The dealers we talked are trying to manage the demand where the supply just isn't there, and they all advised us to put deposits down to secure the purchase, when we can. The trade-in value for our car is rather high, part of the reason we are doing it in the first place.

Unrelated, we took our dog to the groomer today, as she badly needed a good haircut. The grooming prices for Zelda didn't go up, since she's a tiny thing, but for larger dogs the price has increased. Wholesale boxes of things like shampoo doubled over the past month.

Crazy stuff.

[Ed Hurst]

We've seen it here, too. Cars aren't quite the same problem; we have two automobile railheads in the Metro for most of the whole state. Used cars are abundant, but that's Oklahoma. However, everything that we don't make here is tight.