different. what we ve done is actually opened up more and more sites closer to these ports. earlier all the inventory were coming from the l.a. port where they have ultimate options who import from alternate ports and multiple centers by the ports and turn it around quickly. some of the companies you work with or manufacturing products in the u.s. now because of these issues to try to circumvent any shipping problems. a lot of companies have pivoted supply chains to make them more agile. moved some of the manufacturing into the country and that is what we re seeing and why we re getting more and more goods even so late in this stage and even today we re getting pallets and truck loads of inventory. it is a busy day. prices 9% higher this year. some of the top items you can see markdowns on according to adobe, toys, apparent and
country are purchasing more goods online, maybe some of it is from habits that developed during the pandemic when people didn t leave their homes. some of it is because we ve seen an economic recovery that has been underway for the last nine months. the unemployment rate is cut in half that is leading to a massive increase in volume. martha: is she right? partly. in the beginning that was absolutely it. you remember the visions of the l.a. port, container ships stacked like cord wood. there s another issue here. it s the shortage of labor. there are not enough people to drive trucks. there s not enough people in the warehouses, not enough long shoremen. a lot of issues converging here and creating problems in the economy that will show up in overall gdp growth. you can tell me i m getting a tax cut but i m not buying it. martha: the military and national guard have trucks and