Empty shelves. Really now?

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BerlinThe feeling of satisfaction grew in me at the TV images from the UK. There you have it, Brexit. Queues formed in front of the gas stations, not because crude oil was running out. But I refrained from glee in memory of the oil crisis of the 1970s. Sunday driving ban – you know. But now it is a self-evoked deficiency. There is a lack of truck drivers who bring the fuel from here to there. They’re crazy, the British, Obelix would have said.

In the meantime, however, the shortage phenomena are not only eye-catching as a result of the politically paradoxical Brexit desire. Empty shelves at Ikea, and even a sustainability department store like Manufactum is gripped by delivery problems. The manufacturer of an elegant sparkling water maker must match the associated filling bottles. For a few weeks now, customers have been put off for the following month.

Reprint management issues

In the public perception, efforts are now being made to limit the feeling of lack to the high gasoline prices. When prices rise and fall, that should not be taken as an indication that something is missing. In the book industry, however, with a view to the Christmas business, people become familiar with referring to out-of-print editions. The reprint management is becoming riskier with waiting times of up to seven months, according to the German book trade association, deadline pressures are almost impossible.

The industry jargon suggests that associations with lack and renunciation should be avoided. While the digital economy lives on the illusion of unlimited availability and delivery services are booming, emergency appears as a historical motif, which the Norwegian writer Knut Hamsun introduced in his novel “Hunger” with the sentence: “It was at the time when I was walking around in Kristiania and starved, in this strange city, which nobody leaves until they have been drawn by it. ”There must be no shortage for those marked by consumption.

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