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This article first appeared in the Morning Brief. Get the Morning Brief sent directly to your inbox every Monday to Friday by 6:30 a.m. ET. Subscribe Friday, January 14, 2021 Don’t look now but the supply crisis isn’t getting better No, it’s not your imagination: Shelves in a lot of stores are still empty, and that item you ordered is taking longer than normal to reach you. All of which means the Great Supply Chain Crisis that many hoped we would leave behind in 2021, is clearly becoming a… Source link

The Federal Trade Commission said Monday that it is investigating the causes behind ongoing supply chain disruptions and how they are “causing serious and ongoing hardships for consumers and harming competition in the U.S. economy.” The FTC said it is ordering Walmart, Amazon, Kroger, other large wholesalers and suppliers including Procter & Gamble Co., Tyson Foods and Kraft Heinz Co. “to turn over information to help study causes of empty shelves and sky-high prices.” Orders also are… Source link

Can’t find what you need at the store again? You’re not alone. Shoppers pushing their carts around the supermarket may notice thin shelves while reaching for their favorite products, as the increasingly hits home for consumers already stung by higher prices on virtually everything. Bare store shelves were common at the start of the pandemic, driven largely by panic-buying. But almost two years in, some spaces are empty again — but for slightly different reasons. As the holiday season… Source link

The clock is ticking until 2022 when Google is scheduled to pull support for third-party cookies in its dominant web browser Chrome, a development that upended the $330 billion digital advertising industry. … Source link