CLAUS FOR CONCERN: This entire hubbub over hellish gaps in the holiday supply chain of holiday goods has me, along with a boatload of others, detecting an all too convenient act of reaching early Santafication. Sound suspicions have big market merchants parlaying mere transport and delivery slowness into empty shelf horrors for buyers.
This unceremonious fear mongering is successfully goosing even the most highly experienced shoppers, many still recalling the night before Christmas terrors back…
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