>>9400296>>9400299Brian Flynn discusses all this in the recent Fwoosh interview and in other recent interviews regarding how he had to raise prices. Smaller companies such as Super7 were forced to raise their prices before big companies like Hasbro and Mattel did. Brian has said the following:
>Shipping companies are purposely extorting toy makers and other manufacturers since they have a monopoly on the shipping industry, and are using Covid as an excuse to do so.>There's new and ever changing regulations for Covid on a day to day basis, and they'll do things like force a ship to quarantine for 2 weeks because someone on the ship will be diagnosed with Covid.>They have crazy fuel efficiency requirements in California on trucks, that make it so no truck made before 3 years ago can be used to transport goods.>There's rules on how many people can ride in the trucks now, because of social distancing. >There's a shortage of drivers due to covid, including mandatory vaxes.>Some young drivers aren't allowed to drive across certain state lines, etc. >There's also a bunch of bullshit going on at the California port where cargo is just piling up and there's not enough employees to move it, and employees are trying to strike, wanting more money and benefits. Pretty much China and US government regulations fucked up the shipping industry, raising prices on everything.
