Supply Chain Fiasco Preventing Us From Getting Product. The negative impacts of sourcing products internationally has affected our product availability for the upcoming holiday season, and at this point it doesn’t appear that we will receive our Christmas stock before Black Friday.
We placed our order with a Chinese manufacturer in March, and that order was shipped from China in early September. As of today, our product has been sitting on a cargo ship near the Port of Long Beach since early October. Based on what we’ve seen we may not receive our product until December, or at least that is the potential best case scenario.
Unfortunately, there isn’t much we can do.
Lack Of Product, Rising Retail Prices
Coupled with the problems associated with receiving our product, exorbitant transportation costs will affect retail prices on everything found in our retail store. We highlighted this topic in a blog post on July 5 that warned our customers of price increases as a result of global shipping rates.
Politics aside, this supply chain disaster has many causes. We could write a novel about the across the board failures of so many involved in the transportation and supply chain industries. And like so many small businesses, we are going to bear the brunt of these failures.
You count Christmas Lights Creations among those that consider these supply chain failures and transportation cost increases as nothing more than one big lame excuse.
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