Paint could continue to be scarce and costly for the foreseeable future. "What are you going to sell people? The people who we're looking for supply from now are only supplying the big stores."įor consumers, it could all spell trouble in the days ahead. "It's really hard for small business," he said. Muhammad said some of the larger manufacturers are pressing stores to sell only their products or face being cut off. Robert Muhammad at 4 Seasons Paint Store in Brooklyn, New York, said some of the bigger companies prioritize larger stores and snub smaller retailers with product availability tight. Smaller stores have been feeling the pinch in a way that big-box retailers have not. Things were just where you couldn't handle the amount of inventory that was being pulled out." "Since the pandemic started, so many people have been painting and doing home construction along with all the other construction going on. So you start selling certain products and then you've got to switch to another one," he said. "Sure, it has impacted us, in the sense that just certain products you can't get. Businesses are trying to copeĭoing business from his store in Pennsylvania, Moser has felt the cost increases in multiple ways as demand remains. Prices, though, are rising and supplies are getting tougher to come by. "We have been highly proactive in managing the supply chain disruptions to minimize the impact on our customers." "The pace at which capacity comes back online and supply becomes more robust remains uncertain," Young added. "These production disruptions, coupled with surging architectural and industrial demand, have pressured raw material supply and rapidly driven prices upward," Julie Young, vice president of global corporate communications for Sherwin-Williams, said in a statement to CNBC. Company officials have been candid in investor calls that they foresee additional "pricing actions" to cope with rising input costs. Sherwin-Williams is the largest paint manufacturer in the U.S. Shortages of other goods have clogged up supply chains, all while the demand for Chantilly lace, tricorn black and green smoke - to name three of the most popular colors – has abounded. The deep freeze in the South slowed production of petroleum, a critical ingredient for paint.
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