How is the Icelandic volcano effecting your life?

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Might seem rather odd that this is posted under the Bizz section but its probably the right section...unfortunately.

Since its eruption and the grounding of aircraft the first obvious effects were felt quickly by those poor travelers trying to get home from their holiday or business trips.

Were already starting to see signs of food shortages on the supermarket shelves.....at the moment this appears to be only the more exotic fruits etc however there are people now beginning to stock pile essentials which may lead to shortages of these more basic items which undoubtedly will start more people stockpiling and thus fuel shortages.

Back to why this is in the Bizz section.

Its only been a week now and ,whilst the airlines are beginning to voice their opinions on getting back up there against the advice of the authorities there are little indications as to when things will get back to normal...once they do there will be a tremendous backlog of human and freight to be shifted before things can get back to some form of normality.

In just this week we are already experiencing shortage of ingredients supplies as the manufacturers simply cant get the stuff off the ground to us..this means we cant produce which means supplies to our customers are beginning to get low already....not helped by the season beginning to move to higher volume output demands.

Similar reports are coming in from other manufacturers.

So human traffic,food and now supplies into business is becoming an issue.

This can only get worse as more time with planes on the ground ticks by.

Have you found any shortages of food or professional supplies as yet ??
 
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Well my return to the UK has been postponed so far and so my beauty business is affected as I am not around to take appointments.

I think it has shown us all how much we reply on air transportation to run our lives even we are never the ones to go anywhere, our supplies, orders, products and foods all rely on the transport.

I wouldnt want to be an airline about now but I certainly wouldnt mind being a sea shipping company :D.
 
Well so far I can't see me being affected. Yet.

Actually...hold on a minute...what about Shellac?! If we can't get the Shellac in, it will be big. We've worked hard on hyping up all our clients on it, and they all have the dates penciled in their diaries!!! :)
 
I was thinking just this myself. It doesn't really effect my business as the bulk of my client base are massage, but I was thinking big salons may get problems. On a personal note I've got my 13 year old daughter stuck on a school trip in Italy.
 
So far I've been affected both positively AND negatively.... Because I work in a tourist/ ex-pat resort, I've done a couple of peoples nails, because they are stranded here and can't see their normal tech in the UK. On the other hand I have had a cancellation this morning because the client is stuck in the UK! I've got a nightmare getting products here anyway, so used to that, lol!
 
A couple of clients are stuck abroad and have had to postpone appointments. No supply problems as yet, but I am pretty stocked up in the salons at the mo.

Saw a picture posted on twitter today of the damage to a Finnish jet that did a test flight through the ash cloud. Not good. I wouldnt be flying in it, neither do I want them flying over my house!
 

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My brother in law should have been in Washinton on business but his flight was cancelled last week. He had a stroke on Sunday morning as he got out of bed at home with his wife there. Had he been in Washington he would have been alone in a hotel room in the middle of the night. My sister in law got him to hospital within an hour of the stroke, who knows when he would have been found if he had been away!

He is comfortable in hospital now but it will take a long time for him to be right again.
 
  • Huge airfare hikes - something like 500% increase
  • Freight increases and product stoppages
  • Increase in train and boat fares
  • Increase in the cost of food - particularly fruit and veg
  • Hit on the economy as services struggle to cope with the losses/increases
I've yet to place next month's order but this may probably indirectly affect me inasmuch as my frieght costs will increase and I'll have to absorb them into my pricing regime. And as I have no desire to go to Europe right now I don't have to pay the $11K airlines are asking for a direct flight to London.
 
So far just one postoned St Tropez as her flight was cancelled, so nothing major at all! As far as I'm aware most of my supplies are shipped anyway.
 
I have never thought of it this way. We have been very busy this week we are full up! As i work on a holiday park and lots of people that were ment to be abroad have ended up booking a last minute deal in this country and alot have ended up where i work! So overtime for me this week. xx
 

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