The conventional wisdom was that with more Americans vaccinated and the economy reopened, the explosion in goods-buying during the COVID-19 pandemic would moderate to at best a muffled roar. Yet the roar appears to remain as full-throated as it was in the summer of 2020, and there’s no sign from data or anecdotes that it will ease off any time soon.
A slowdown in goods-buying was “what we are expecting, but we haven’t seen it yet,” said Griff Lynch, executive director of the Georgia Ports...
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