holiday freight

‘People are gonna be pulling their hair out’: Supply chain execs predict chaotic holiday peak

Shortage of drivers and workers will lead to chaotic holiday peak season, supply chain experts say

In the lead-up to last year’s peak holiday season, panic spread like wildfire. Members of the media predicted daily shortfalls of millions of packages and devastating delays, but as it turned out, there was much ado about nothing. Despite handling record levels of volume, the major U.S. carriers posted similar or slightly better on-time rates than during the 2019 peak.

That’s because there wasn’t really much of a peak in 2020 –– consumers were still adjusting to the new normal of the e-commerce...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/people-are-gonna-be-pulling-their-hair-out-supply-chain-execs-predict-chaotic-holiday-peak

Get them before they’re gone: 4 products to buy before holiday craze

Christmas Hanukkah and other winter holiday shopping, get these 4 products before they're gone

At this point, nearly everyone is familiar with the global supply chain issues that we just can’t seem to shake. Earlier this month, Modern Shipper wrote about how those hiccups are causing delays that will reach as far into the future as the holiday season and why you should do your winter holiday shopping ASAP. That hasn’t changed, but some products figure to be more scarce on the shelves than others.

For most American-made goods, delivery times still should be pretty quick, given the bevy of...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/get-them-before-theyre-gone-4-products-to-buy-before-holiday-craze

Despite losing momentum late, holiday sales surprise to the upside

This is an excerpt from Thursday’s Point of Sale retail supply chain newsletter.

Despite retail sales declining sequentially each of the last three months of the year, the 2020 holiday shopping season was one for the record books. Retail sales during 2020’s November-December holiday season grew an unexpectedly high 8.3% over the same period in 2019. The 8.3% increase was more than double the 3.5% average holiday increase over the previous five years, including 2019’s 4% gain. 

(Chart: National...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/despite-losing-momentum-late-holiday-sales-surprise-to-the-upside

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