US Retailers Scramble to Stock Shelves as Children Head Back to School
LOS ANGELES/NEW YORK At Stationery and Toy World, a family-owned shop in New York’s Upper West Side, manager Gary Rowe is having difficulty getting all the pens and folders he ordered for the important back-to-school season.
His usual vendors have low stocks of Pilot’s erasable FriXion pens and Paper Mate Flair marker pens and prices are high on stationery and other in-demand school supplies.
And Rowe is not alone, retailers are navigating a storm of challenges higher production costs, cargo delays from China and other Asian countries, and sky-high shipping rates as they gear up for the industry’s second-biggest selling season.
U S retailers scramble to stock shelves as kids head back to school
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