Here's why store shelves are empty again in parts of the US.
have caused Americans to once again find barren shelves at supermarkets or retail stores.
Doug Baker, vice president of industry relations for the Food Marketing Institute, a trade group, said the latest Covid-19 variant and the bad stretch of winter weather have made the supply chain situation worse. He said he remained hopeful things would normalize again once the country got through the omicron surge.
“Because of the absences that we do have, combined with the labor shortage in this industry, you are seeing the lines are running slower than they were,” he said. “[Meatpacking plants] tend to find enough through rearranging staff to keep the slaughter side fully staffed, but then there isn’t always enough on the other side of the plant — the processing side.”
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