'Buy it now': The time has come to start holiday shopping or risk missing Christmas
If you haven’t started holiday shopping, you might be falling behind.
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If you haven’t started holiday shopping, you might be falling behind.
Every day on the west side of Atlanta, tons of plastic arrive at the Nexus processing facility. Most of it is thin plastic like shopping bags, packaging and “bubble wrap, huge amounts of bubble wrap,” said Nexus’ CEO Jeff Gold. “And where this comes from, I don’t really know or why we get it I’m not sure.”
Just when consumers have come to terms with, and have even embraced, online shopping during the pandemic and after, the proverbial rug's been pulled out from under us because of supply chain logjams – and during the holiday season to boot. Investors in the retail space might want to know what to expect for the industry.
BOSTON — The nation’s supply chain crunch is driving up the cost of just about everything. Now, you can add toys to the list.
The White House went live Nov. 3 with a supply chain dashboard intended to shed light on the current disruption.

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