With just a few weeks until Halloween, retail companies said they are still missing inventory because of shipping issues affecting the holiday season.
Historically at this point in the year, Spirit Halloween would have delivered some 90-plus percent of merchandise to its stores, the seasonal retailer’s CEO, Steven Silverstein, told NBC News. But as of Tuesday, the company had only sent out around 80 percent, he said. The rest should be delivered by the third week in October — about a week before Halloween.Silverstein said the impact of the shipping delay has been building since spring.
A woman wearing a face mask looks at Halloween decorations and costumes at a store in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada, on Oct. 29, 2020.Marybeth Brock, an owner of Johnnie Brock’s Dungeon Party Warehouse in St. Louis, said last year the store would have had 95 percent of its product already priced and on shelves. As of this week, it was at 75 percent. Decorations have been affected most of all, she said.
“We have customers asking for them every day, and we just got those in today. Normally we would have those in the middle of September,” she said Tuesday.
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