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Less ships on the water, means shipping is more expensive. Ports were blocked for a long time, causing shipping costs to skyrocket.

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And when the manufacturing plants were able to finally open, they had to keep up with regular demand plus backlogs, with less workers available and less raw material, increasing the price of the final product in the process.Ĩ0% of goods are shipped by sea, so even if your desk was made, it was hard to find boats to send it on.

However, in the midst of the pandemic, the manufacturing plants were closed down for weeks, meaning there were no desks being made. Normally, this wouldn’t be a problem, the manufacturing plant just…makes them and sends them over. So, they talk to their manufacturing plant, which is usually overseas, and say: “Hey! We need 1000 desks”. Now, what happens if it’s not in stock? What if 1000 people order the same desk at the same time? The company needs to order more desks. That order gets sent to the company that sells it and if they have it in stock, great! The warehouse, which is normally outsourced by the company that sells you the product, packs it up, prints the shipping label, the UPS picks it up and delivers it to your home. You go online and find the absolutely perfect desk, so you put it in your cart and proceed to checkout. After all, you are going to be working from home for the foreseeable future, you might as well get comfortable.

You’re on your phone, scrolling and you decide you want to buy a new desk. In simple terms, it’s like a massive reverse domino effect where if one piece falls short, it keeps the rest of dominos from falling…on a massive, global scale. And it’s only going to get worse as we approach the holiday season. The truth is the pandemic put a massive stress on more than just our healthcare systems it hit the international supply chain – hard.

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Though the worse of the COVID-19 pandemic may seem to be behind us, the consequences on our daily lives are still in full throttle.

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