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Exactly. I distinctly remember how several years ago Mexico manufactured Tequila shortage by claiming that disastrous weather led to a shortage of agave fruit.
by huhtenberg 12y ago
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I distinctly remember how several years ago Mexico manufactured Tequila shortage by claiming that disastrous weather led to a shortage of agave fruit. At least this was a story given by Canadian liquor stores to questions why Tequila prices were hiked by close to 50% almost overnight. I kid you not. They also issued assurances that once this pesky Mexican weather normalizes the prices will go back to normal. You guessed it - they never did.
- fosap 12y agoSee the HDD "shortage".
- vertex-four 12y agoIn that particular case, there was a shortage - it was extremely difficult for even large businesses to get hard drives. The issue was that hard drive manufacturers were (are?) clustered around an area that got flooded.
- uptown 12y agoOr the shortage was caused by the NSA filling their new data-center with as much capacity as it could get its hands on, covertly, and the flood was used as a convenient cover-story for the shortage.
- Bluestrike2 12y agoMaybe the NSA even managed to engineer the flood itself? Yes, that sounds about right.
- brador 12y agoIt is a possibility that might have made the situation worse, but there really was a flood and many HDD factories were flooded and closed.
- Synaesthesia 12y agoAgave is still in short supply, that's why most "tequila" is cut with other liquors.