What’s happening to Tommee tippee?

[Tryingandhoping2020]

Wherever I go the dummies are always low stock and never have any of the pink/purple options, and now they seem to have discontinued the old style first cup and the new style one isn't free-flow... anyone know if anywhere still sells the old style cup and has good dummy stock? Are they discontinuing the dummies does anyone know?

Their products are manufactured in China. Since covid, the freight rates for shipping has multiplied to stupid rates (think increase from $2,000 to $14,000 or more per container) for direct shipments so everything has to be transhipped. What should be approx a month's journey now takes 2 to 3 months).

And the port of Felixstowe never really recovered its "efficiency" since social distancing was introduced. Collecting and transporting containers out of there has increased its prices as well - haulage companies are usually honoring their agreed rates for transports, but they're adding a driver surcharge onto every transport. They lost a lot of drivers after Brexit.

So yeah, everything's much more expensive and slower to import now