field because he tested positive. i don t know if you know someone is getting an advantage as much as you look at it and say we re going to look back at this period as a period of no rules and we have to remember which teams had real rosters and which teams didn t. wow. howard, i want to continue with this because this is something you and i talked about in the past, my podcast, and something i scream about online. when i look at the nfl, it s not just a sport to me it s a labor issue. the nfl announces two weeks ago, even though these players are millionaires and make billions of dollars for us, we re not going to test unless somebody is symptomatic. doing away with testing throughout the teams and we see the cdc under pressure from the business sector saying you can quarantine for five days instead of ten days. from a labor standpoint, how is covid affecting the relationship between the teams union and the owners of the team? jason, it s enormous.
answer wrong direction of the economy. the resilience of the consumer when they see an end in sight is always there. right now we ve got this inner connected tangle of problems. we re not going to solve inflation until we solve supply chain issues and we won t solve supply chain until we solve the labor issue. untangling those and knowing where to start without any real policy direction or guidance or leadership on a federal level is going to be very difficult. sandra: final question to you on this, bill. you have observed a lot of consumer behavior having led walmart. we do see a consumer that is resilient. we haven t really seen demand wane just yet in the face of these higher prices. there s a change in behavior when you so i high inflation. people go to generic products. they look for cheaper products, alternatives. shed some light on that on how
the wedge is this labor issue, right? i think we agreed on that. it just the way of describing it. good job. go, go, go. spending a lot of time telling the story of the civil war and the construction, it s a great class, why? because i think we have not adequately, you know, understood who we are as a nation. there s so much of this history that has been way too difficult for this country to look at. the reason it s important to understand this history is because we carry it within us. these things need to be unpacked and looked at, and talked about, and we need to decide what we think about them now. this is challenging, but it s where the juice is. we call it the war between
processing industry could be a good thing. so you know, we are looking forward to that. there s just it gets pretty complicated, but we welcome the administration looking into it and possibly increasing competition. sandra: now, but so and you tell me exactly the way you see this. but to suggest that this is not about all the increased regulations, rules, obviously covid playing a part where you lost a lot of the workforce. andy puzder is suggesting this is a labor issue, a supply chain issue, a lot at work driving prices higher. but correct me if i m wrong, if for the president to suggest it s a competition issue, and that these four big companies control too much of the market, wouldn t that be a suggestion they are somehow colluding to raise prices. don t they compete with each
thanks for being with us today. we heard about the difficulty getting toys and other household goods this christmas but haven t thought about trees. you say it is down to a perfect storm. explain. it started back in 2012 when we experienced significant drought across the us. when that happened a number of the new planted baby trees died. it takes 8 to 10 years to grow a christmas tree so you fast forward to today and that is when these trees would be available for cutting. the last couple years, less than adequate moisture so haven t got growth the trees. we saw some of these issues coming and prepared for from inventory management knowing we would have less stock and bridge the gap but this year we add on top of the labor issue which is a lot of forestry going to get their trees out of the field to get cut and loaded on trucks