THIS is a notice that we do not want to hear from our online or regular store but this is becoming more common. This is especially true for consumer durables as we navigate through the pandemic. I was recently on the phone with my friend Jessie Veneracion who lives in Huntington Beach, California. He mentioned that if you looked across the pier towards Long Beach, you could actually see container ships docked offshore for several weeks now. Long Beach and Los Angeles account for about one-third of US imports and this is causing supply bottlenecks all across the country for critical supplies affecting businesses from restaurants to automobiles.

What is happening in the US is also happening across the globe. A new worldwide wave of the Covid-9 Delta variant and natural disasters in China and Germany are driving global supply chains towards breaking point threatening the fragile flow of raw materials, parts and consumer goods according to shipping experts.

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