Saturday, April 1, 2023

Leading indicator that things might be getting Sporky soon

 

One of my fruit-growing buddies called my attention to certain items that are sold on Amazon. Before he retired and started growing plants, he had a stressful job on the street where paying attention to leading indicators was desirable if he didn't wish to acquire extra holes in his body.

Old habits die hard. He has been watching volumes of certain items and he believes that there has been a recent up-tick in sales volume. That is, Amazon is selling ten-times more of these items per week than they were selling a few weeks ago.

Given that the weather is warming up, it must be to deter sunburn and mosquitoes. Right?

And these wholesale lots are probably going to Thudpucker, Vermont to summer camps for pale yuppie-larvae who swell up after being bit by mosquitoes.

And these are probably going to 'Alf-goofye, Minnesota

I am very curious about where these increased volumes are being shipped to.

Amazon shipped out roughly 30,000 full-face masks last week. Amazing that Amazon had that many on the shelf. Assuming the "purchasing" season for upcoming festivities is between one and two months long, then we are looking at an army of 120,000-to-240,000 high-spirited protestors.

Stay away from crowds. If you get beaned by a rock, it doesn't matter if it was thrown by a good-guy or a goblin.

Other things the cool kids might be buying


This is a harder call. Dirt-biking season is upon us and one would expect sales of these items to rise.

21 comments:

  1. I think you are the one driving cross country soon.
    Switch drivers, keep moving.
    Avoid crowds

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    1. ERJ, on the other hand, you are more aware than 99.9% of the population. I think you said it would likely be sooner rather than later, which may still be okay.

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    2. You need safe houses.

      MF

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  2. I've decided that Mr. Shock Wave is a great buddy to have on my intrastate trips. He's a handy guy.

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  3. It would be even more interesting to know the source of payment for all of these and the shipping destinations(s)....

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    1. They ARE known. But not by the average Joe.

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    2. The trannies and all their friends or fiends I should say.

      Is there a term to describe taking one letter out of a word and create another and it’s opposite?

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  4. The next ~10yrs will be epic. Rome / Babylon level comeuppance. May you and yours stay out of the blast radius.

    The Euro and Yen are good canaries in the coal mine for Western $. The US dollar will enjoy one last pop to the top after those two go tits up. Then poof.

    The whole $$$ game changes 2030-2032 ish. World war in between. The math is inevitable. Plan accordingly, and pray. Pray, PRAY!

    Hell is coming to breakfast…

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  5. Kinda like when the first robin shows up. ---ken

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  6. While I don't discount the potential we are talking about, it is also possible that that smudge of data is faked, or manipulated by DaNile in an attempt to psychologically entice someone into making a purchase - FOMO and what not. They do have those annoying "order quickly, we are almost out" kind of sales tactics.

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  7. It could indeed be a simple act to "buy now" - large corporations have to eat like rest of us I suppose, and what better way than to make things appear scarce. That said, those do seem to be items that would be unusually useless in 95% of the situations that confront the average person in Summer.

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  8. Stay away from crowds. Stay away from Blue cities.

    "Stay strapped or get clapped."

    "Don't be there. "

    All good advice

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  9. I happen to like the 'industrial sized' Sabre Red. Always carry it in the vehicle for those pesky wasps...

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    1. In my experience a vehicle sized dry fire extinguisher is QUITE effective in cooling off a Hot Head.

      The policeman that responded after he stopped laughing thought it a good trick.

      I could have done something far more violent, but it worked well enough for me to call 911 to deal with the moron.

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  10. like those pallets of bricks which are delivered conveniently where blm is going to gather

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    1. Ya gotta aske yourself... who signed the delivery order. Commercial trucks don't just roll down the street by themselves.
      Never heard a word about that, did we. Huh...

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  11. Time to ban assault liberals.

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  12. How do you get Amazon to show the sales info? I've looked around their web site and not seen that, even when sorting for "Most Popular"

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