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How supply chains break and why we're seeing shortages

Steve Evans
Updated January 16 2022 - 6:43pm, first published 6:40pm
Supermarket shelves are beginning to empty across the country as the Omicron variant strikes. Picture: Getty Images
Supermarket shelves are beginning to empty across the country as the Omicron variant strikes. Picture: Getty Images

Staff shortages across the economy are causing empty shelves. Stocks of everything from chicken burgers to toilet paper are running low to empty. Staff in crucial links in the supply chain - from abattoirs to trucks to checkouts - are having to stay home because of contact with infected people, or because they have been infected themselves.

Steve Evans

Steve Evans

Reporter

Steve Evans is a reporter on The Canberra Times. He's been a BBC correspondent in New York, London, Berlin and Seoul and the sole reporter/photographer/paper deliverer on The Glen Innes Examiner in country New South Wales. "All the jobs have been fascinating - and so it continues."

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