Avoiding The (Shopping) Nightmare Before Christmas: Local Retailers Brace For Holiday Shortages

SACRAMENTO (CBS13) — The vacation decorations are already coming out. That’s wherefore immoderate Old Sacramento retailers got successful the vacation tone aboriginal to debar what is becoming the nightmare earlier Christmas: getting the gifts onto store shelves. 

“There is immoderate candy we person trouble getting,” said Heather Music, who has worked astatine Candy Heaven for a decade.

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Music has ne'er seen proviso concatenation issues similar what she’s dealt with during COVID-19.

“Things similar the Hot Tamales, oregon Mike and Ikes, those ones they had an contented for six to 8 months. They conscionable were not making them astatine all,” Music said.

When it comes to prime brands, they are astatine the mercy of the distributors.

“Sometimes it’s successful a warehouse, sometimes we conscionable don’t know,” Music said. “So erstwhile idiosyncratic asks, ‘Do you person truthful and so’s circumstantial product?’ We person it ordered, but we can’t archer you erstwhile we are going to get it, unfortunately.”

At Stage Nine a fewer doors down, Troy Carlson wasn’t playing astir erstwhile it came to stocking up for the holidays.

“The past mates years person shown you person to beryllium flexible and alteration with the times,” helium said.

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Above the store, their stockroom is filled from level to ceiling with boxes with a abstracted warehouse off-site.

This year, Carlson besides turned bureau abstraction into much storage.

“This is each the aforesaid line. It’s 1 of our apical vendors successful Stage Nine called Lounge Fly,” Carlson said arsenic helium opened the door.

Confident radical volition find their vacation container due to the fact that they got a bully grip connected inventory early.

“We benignant of took a gamble and said, ‘Let’s enactment large orders in.’ And we’re conscionable going to anticipation we made the close determination and present we’re thankful we did that,” Carlson said.

Music says it’s a sticky concern moving guardant successful the candy world.

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“One tin lone anticipation it volition improve. So we volition spot however adjacent twelvemonth starts,” Music said.

Rachel Wulff