Actually, I believe momus's complaint is with the Kodak *chemicals*, which aren't made by the same people as the film
Exactly.
But there has been some problems in recent years with Kodak branded 120 film - backing paper problems.
Backing paper issues have beset a number of different films and a number of different manufacturers in recent years - at least more frequently than they used to.
And the Kodak colour paper is largely made in Colorado, in a plant that had been Eastman Kodak, then became a shared plant between Carestream and Eastman Kodak, then became a plant shared by Kodak Alaris and Carestream, and is now Carestream and ???
All of which makes it confusing if someone says they are unhappy about "Kodak" products - which ones?
By the way, I am blessed/cursed with a near lifetime of knowledge about Kodak, plus an easily understood although now illogical loyalty there.
Most of what I post about Kodak is based on really old personal knowledge plus more current information from public sources, but I still have a little bit of insight from ...
If I speculate, it will be clear that I am doing so from how I say what I say.
On the initial question from the OP, most sales happen in two situations:
1) a vendor has excess inventory they wish to
share sell off; or
2) a vendor and/or a distributor and/or a manufacturer plan for a sale, by ordering or manufacturing more product to be sold at a favourable price.
The latter case depends on there being available timely manufacturing, shipping and warehousing resources.
In these pandemic times, manufacturing and distribution and warehousing and shipping are disrupted, as are the supplies of the materials needed. In addition, retailers appear to have sold out many of their stocks on hand. As a result, neither type of sales are likely to happen.
Instead, everything has become more expensive and less reliable.