Supply chain issues are slowing deliveries, but the real problem is all your shopping

Supply chain bottlenecks that are disrupting deliveries to shoppers and businesses – while driving inflation to 40-year highs – mostly have been traced to pandemic-driven worker shortages at factories, ports and warehouses. But some top analysts say there’s a bigger culprit: You.

“The main culprit is demand,” says Yossi Sheffi, director of the MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics.