{"id":9693,"date":"2022-01-12T03:14:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-12T03:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2022\/01\/12\/supply-chain-challenges-covid-19-to-blame-for-empty-store-shelves\/"},"modified":"2022-09-07T15:45:23","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T19:45:23","slug":"supply-chain-challenges-covid-19-to-blame-for-empty-store-shelves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/supply-chain-challenges-covid-19-to-blame-for-empty-store-shelves\/","title":{"rendered":"Supply chain challenges, COVID-19 to blame for empty store shelves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wyff4.com\/article\/supply-chain-covid-19-to-blame-for-empty-shelves\/38739774\">WYFF News 4<\/a><\/strong> story, Ken Kolb, Furman University professor and chair of the sociology department, unpacks why grocery store shelves are often sparsely populated. He said any number of factors can contribute to a kink in the supply chain &#8211; the omicron variant being one. \u201cThere\u2019s just so many people involved in getting products from A to B to C to Z that if there\u2019s any one person who calls in sick because their kid&#8217;s school got canceled or for whatever reason, even if they show up to work late &#8211; that could disrupt the chain,\u201d Kolb said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a WYFF News 4 story, Ken Kolb, Furman University professor and chair of the sociology department, unpacks why grocery store shelves are often sparsely populated. He said any number [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":14,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,6,22],"tags":[1248,1249,1250],"class_list":["post-9693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-in-the-news","category-sociology","tag-grocery-store-supply-chain","tag-omicron-variant","tag-supply-chain-disruptors"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9693\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}