Businesses around the world today are struggling to try and keep up with demand. There have been a significant amount of supply chain disruptions and that means that customers are struggling in trying to find things like toilet paper, computer chips, and other goods.
The pandemic gave some businesses a new experience of trying to struggle to navigate those issues and that might have meant for some they went looking to alternative suppliers and for local goods. Others have been ordering well in advance to try and help them get around these issues, even if it means trying to get months of goods in before they are needed. Whenever supplies can be found and ordered the stores are ordering large amounts, whatever they can get.
Some shoes, coffee, ammunition, computer chips, toilet paper, food in some areas, bikes, and more.
In some regions right now it is clearly worse than others.
The supply chain crisis isn't over yet and it goes to show that you cannot centrally manipulate the supply chain on that scale, closing down factories and production facilities around the world, without it having some long-lasting impact overall on the market.
There are some suggestions that perhaps the worst of the supply chain crisis might be behind us now but it is clear that there are many out there who are still struggling to get and find the goods to buy.