When it comes to Christmas – the shopping season, not the part about the eventful birth several centuries ago in Bethlehem – the last few years were packaged in considerable challenges to the retail and logistics industries.
The weather wasn’t the issue. Rudolph’s red nose wasn’t much help with solutions to a global pandemic (2020), the backlog of shipments at ports like Los Angeles-Long Beach (2021), or a wave of inflation (2022).