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First it was bathroom paper. Then it was processors and different silicon. Now it’s cardboard. (And there’s an entire lot of different stuff in between.)
The most recent kink within the planet’s ever-gnarled provide chain is one that’s sending retailers, shippers, and shoppers all scrambling. Cardboard provides are unreliable, as are these for different packing supplies like paper and plastic. And what’s obtainable prices extra, with a great deal of firms passing the elevated bills to prospects.
Most of the cardboard-producing paper mills all over the world shut down at totally different factors in the course of the COVID-19 pandemic. Whereas crops have come again on-line, they’re nonetheless scrambling to fill a backlog of orders.
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