 Hello everyone and welcome. This is Melissa Arvo with Stock Swoosh and I'm coming to you today because I wanted to share something with you. For those of you that know, I own the Stock Swoosh. I have a business and I have a fax number. Sometimes in my fax number, I get incorrect faxes. In fact, sometimes I've received resumes from people, which is kind of funny. I received a resume last year, it was in December from someone looking for a job as a trucker, which was really funny. So sometimes you send a fax and you might have the wrong number on it and I end up getting sometimes these incorrect faxes, but it was really interesting because on Friday, I got a fax. I'm not going to tell you the company I got it from. It was clearly a company that was a manufacturer, producer, a production company and it was clearly meant for a supermarket that was selling food and so they sent it to the wrong number. But I'm going to read it to you and then I'm going to make a point. It says to all of our value customers, effective February 7, 2022, green peas will be subject to a seven cents a pound increase. The reason for this price increase is related to the ocean freight crisis. We will continue to monitor the situation and advise when we can adjust the prices in the future. Now, what do you get from that? Well, first of all, that there's an ocean freight crisis. Now, if you've been watching the news and you've been finding this, a lot of news outlets have been trying to spin that there isn't a crisis. It's under control. There isn't any problems. Things are going fine. If you're a consumer, you know that if you've gone into the store that there are shelves in grocery stores and regular stores that sell other products that the shelves are empty or certain things aren't there. Not that every shelf is empty, not that there's nothing there, but that there are certain items that it's difficult to get. Also, you know if you buy food for yourself that you know the cost of food has gone up. What I find very interesting is, again, are we seeing that? To my facts, it was not meant for me, but it just confirmed that, in fact, there is an ocean freight crisis. That's the first time that I really ever saw it in paper. Of course, this is companies to companies. They already know this. The news doesn't really want to cover this, and they want to make it spin like, oh, things are getting better. Things are getting better. Things are going to improve. Price is going to go down. I haven't seen that so far in food, and they're also saying that the cost of the rising inflation is around 6%. That's absolutely not the case either. I've noticed some things that I've gone to buy that I want, so I buy them that have increased 50%. I've noticed some things that have increased 100%, a 100% increase in some food items that I bought in the last 12 months compared to now. It's really something. Again, grocery stores, producers, manufacturers, they must be having a heck of a time, keeping up with the constant, constant changing in prices. Again, when you're selling food, the profit margin is really tight. It's really, really tight. It's not like when you go and you're buying a designer shoe or something like that, like I like to buy shoes and clothing. With clothing, a retail has huge, huge markups, if you didn't know that now you know that, but food does not. Food does not. It's very interesting. Again, it was happenstance that I happened to get that. They called it an ocean freight crisis. Again, if you're a consumer and you've gone to the store, you know that there's a problem. You absolutely know that. That was just more confirmation of, in fact, in the first time I heard anyone call it an ocean freight crisis. There are ships out in port that have not delivered and that are sitting. Then you know, of course, you have waste. You have waste. Part of it is the precautions with COVID where you have the quarantine delay. Part of it is, of course, there's still too many people out of work, high unemployment numbers. We still need more people to get to work. We still have too many job openings. This is compounding all of these situations and, of course, the mandates as well. I'm against the mandates because I think it's halting production and the economy and affecting everywhere and it really is affecting New York. I'm living in one of those places where it is really, really almost having a stronghold like where it's sucking the life out of New York City. So I don't know where it leads and I don't know where the future holds for what's going on or when things are going to get better. But at this point now, since they're not getting better yet with inflation or the cost of rising prices or goods or the supply chain, you can't really predict when it's going to get better. It's like trying to predict a stock of the market and saying, well, the market's going to make a new high by Monday. Well, what would make you say that? Nothing. Nothing at all at this point. Certainly not after the sell-off that we've had since the start to the year. So anyways, little thing I just thought I'd share with everyone today. Really interesting. And again, sometimes I get wrong facts and I didn't want to tell you the company, but I did want to tell you that they call it an ocean-free crisis, which it absolutely is. Have a great day, everyone.