Holiday Shopping Has Supply Chain Hopping: Will Consumers Cooperate?

Buyers for heavyweights like Walmart, Target, and Best Buy are right now working hard against the clock -- and the coronavirus -- to fill their shelves ahead of Black Friday and the launch of the make-or-break season of the year. Production lagging surging demand has put the whole supply chain in snapback mode from last year about this time, when inventories and sales both for consumer and industrial goods plummeted.