[TowerTalk] Fwd: MFJ QRT on May 17, 2024

[Steven Katz]

"I found his comments about covid odd.  We sell on the internet and our sales were beyond amazing during covid.  Everyone was home getting free money (cough) and buying up everything!  It is too bad that they were not positions to take advantage of all the hams sitting at home."

I think COVID was great for retail businesses or even manufacturers if they had inventory or at least all the components required to keep manufacturing lines running full-time during the pandemic.

The issue, which I suspect was MFJ's issue, is if mfg relied on J.I.T. parts shipments and timely deliveries, including well organized kanban orders and shipments, they ran into snags with supply chain interruptions.   A lot of supply chain interruptions.

Bummer when you have everything needed to build a $1000 automatic tuner but are missing one IC to complete the buiid, and nobody has any, nobody is shipping any and in some cases, nobody is even making any.