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WHAT’S

WRONG

WITH THIS

PICTURE?

riding out supply shortages

krissy millner, owner, terra firma home

Terra Firma Home | 309 E. Main St, Medford
541-770-2728 | www.terrafirmahome.com

eruse these pages. Enjoy these peaceful, serene,
and organically designed rooms. What could
possibly be wrong? If your mindset is as rest-
Pful as these rooms, then you are all good. But if
you are waiting for furniture, there’s a high probability
you are not feeling so Zen and becoming quite anxious.
According to the National Trucking Association as I write
this, the U.S. is short 80,000 truck drivers! That number
is hard to wrap your head around.

In my business, we currently have thousands of dollars
of freight, custom handmade pieces in North Carolina,
Belgium-designed white oak from Europe, and countless
other items that are sitting in warehouses waiting to be
picked up—and no drivers. This coupled with massive
storms that wiped out foam production in the states, and
of course our new favorite, Covid-19, things are at an all-
time high level of craziness.

There isn’t a quick or easy end to the story. Custom
furniture made in the U.S. is taking about 26 weeks to
create, and then another 4-8 weeks to ship and receive.

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