‘Buy It When You See It’: Retailers Dread Holiday Shortages

‘Buy It When You See It’: Retailers Dread Holiday Shortages
Ginger Pigg moves boxes of shopping bags in the storage room of her gift boutique The Perfect Pigg in Cumming, Ga., on Oct. 22, 2021. Ben Gray/AP Photo
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NEW YORK—The Perfect Pigg, a gift shop owned by Ginger Pigg, is the go-to place for residents of Cumming, Georgia, to pick up gift items like kids toys and home goods.

But this year, store shelves might be a little sparse. Because of bottlenecks in the global supply chain, many stores like Pigg’s are scrambling to try to get all the inventory they can ahead of the crucial holiday shopping season.