I'm also seeing massive disruptions in my industry. I'm a locksmith and for a couple of years I've been having what seems to be an increasingly difficult time getting hardware for customers.

Everything from door hardware to lock cylinders to transponder keys for vehicles have been difficult to reliably buy.

I've had businesses operate outside of regulatory compliance for weeks or more simply because my distributors are waitlisting everything I need to bring them back to code.

From what I can tell, during the lockdowns a lot of manufacturers, for various imposed reasons, simply could not survive. Those with big enough name recognition were, either voluntarily or otherwise, forced to consolidate. At scale, those consolidations seem to not be going smoothly.

This seems to be worsened by the distributors also consolidating.

I'm having a hard time getting anything and what I do get has massive QC issues.

It's... fun.