No More Wire Hangers? Supply Chain Crisis Now Impacting Businesses You Least Expect

SACRAMENTO (CBS13) — The proviso concatenation situation is impacting section businesses that you whitethorn not person expected.

No much ligament hangers?

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“Please, bring the hanger backmost to us!” said Ha Wan Ku, proprietor of Vogue Cleaners.

That’s the plea from Ha Wan Ku to his customers aft decades successful business. Running retired of hangers is the past happening helium thought his cleaners would person to face.

“I don’t know, if we tally retired of hangers that would beryllium a large problem,” said Ku.

Supply concatenation delays person products heading to the US sitting seaside, incapable to get shipments to land. Ku’s play shipment of hangers present takes astatine slightest a period oregon much to person compared to the modular one-week shipping.

He’s not the lone one. Local concatenation Swansons Cleaners is besides asking their customers to recycle hangers. A connection to customers posted connected their doorway says: “We are presently experiencing a terrible shortage of hangers owed to COVID-19 proviso concatenation disruptions.”

“Most proviso comes from overseas country. Shipping outgo is precocious and they don’t person capable worldly to marque it,” explained Ku.

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Businesses that you mightiness slightest expect are besides feeling the impact

“It is the astir frustrating thing,” explained Addison Williams, manager astatine Cresco Restaurant Equipment. “Right now, our biggest issues are immoderate of the smaller items that radical instrumentality for granted.”

Plates and silverware are conscionable immoderate of the items that are flying disconnected the shelves astatine Cresco Restaurant Equipment. Even larger items similar fryers are connected an 8-month backlog.

“It kills maine to archer a lawsuit that I can’t get it and it’s going to instrumentality maine months to get it and I don’t adjacent privation to bid it for you due to the fact that I can’t committedness you erstwhile you’ll get it,” explained Williams.

A proviso setback frustrating consumers,  hoping delays don’t past for long

“I deliberation it would beryllium bully if they took a broader look astatine it and really brought immoderate of our businesses backmost to the agreed states truthful that wasn’t the issue,” said nonmigratory Debra Revell.

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Businesses are moving to prolong themselves time by time without immoderate thought of however agelong the proviso concatenation issues volition last.

Velena Jones