The Supply-Chain Questions You Were Afraid to Ask
Where’s the pizza you ordered while (if you’re smart) you’re online doing early holiday shopping? You’re gonna be hungry longer than you hoped.
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Just when you thought the supply chain couldn’t get any more broken, it breaks again. More companies are complaining about supply-chain disruptions that are leading to shortages of everything from Ikea mattresses and fish sticks to school bus drivers and Patrón tequila.
If you thought it was a crisis already, then you're really not going to like this development: We’re even short of pizza drivers. Tara Lachapelle explains: “In mid-July, Domino’s also began taking much longer to get its orders out to customers. National average delivery times ‘abruptly and surprisingly spiked 30%’ and haven’t improved since then.” Carry-out wait times didn’t increase, which points to a lack of pizza deliverers.