From The Tribune staff reports
HOOVER — Costco is placing limits on the sale of toilet paper, paper towels, cleaning products and Kirkland-brand water in response to supply chain issues and potentially in anticipation of rising COVID cases.
Those limitations currently remain unclear.
The Times report states4 that Costco’s executive vice president and chief financial officer, Richard A. Galanti, said supply chains have also recently been affected by “port delays; container shortages; Covid disruptions; shortages on various components, raw materials and ingredients; labor cost pressures, and trucker and driver shortages.”
“A year ago there was a shortage of merchandise,” Galanti said during the call. “Now they’ve got plenty of merchandise but there’s two- or three-week delays on getting it delivered because there’s a limit on short-term changes to trucking and delivery needs to suppliers.”