If You Think Your Wait is Long...

[tonyinsd]

be grateful that you aren't in Japan waiting for a Toyota Land Cruiser. Those folks will have to wait four years. That is ridiculous!

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-60078594

Toyota Land Cruiser customers in Japan face four-year wait

Motor industry giant Toyota has warned customers in Japan that they will have to wait for up to four years to take delivery of its new Land Cruiser SUV.
The world's biggest carmaker says the delay is not related to the global chip shortage or the supply chain crisis.
However, it refused to comment on the reasons behind the long delivery time.

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[JASmith]

This was actually BAU in Communist countries, where you'd be put on waiting lists for years for major appliances and vehicles. East Germans for example had a ten year waiting list for a Trabant!

Back in Soviet times people in Eastern Blocks also always bought things like toilet paper whenever it was available, and you always had long queues pretty much everywhere, something we were surprised to see at peak COVID hysteria, where the Sugar Land Costco had lines so long it wrapped all the way around the massive complex and they even showed it on TV with helicopters and had police out providing security and helping traffic get in and out of the only two exits. Of course the irony was that people were packed like sardines, lol!

There's no telling how long it will take to return back to a normal market, but there's some light at the end of the tunnel as the UK announced its switching from pandemic to endemic response, treating COVID just like the regular flu, with details to come next week. Spain is said to follow in two weeks as well. There's going to be a lot of resistance though, as a lot of people don't want to go back to the office anymore, and a lot of megacorporations are also finding that killing all the small businesses and switching to a low-production high-profit business model is actually more profitable than high-production price wars between themselves.