Waiting lists, early sales, products that are already in short supply and others that are out of stock. The second Covid Christmas will go down in history because neither the Three Kings nor Santa Claus will be able to satisfy all of Ibiza’s demands. Not even magic can prevent them from being affected by the serious world-wide distribution problems and the shortage of some materials and chips.
The problem stems, above all, from the East, where factories are having serious difficulties in meeting demand, especially for consoles. And specifically for the PlayStation 5 and PS4, the year’s biggest seller. At Canal Ocio, in Vila, “they are sold out”. “You order 20 from the supplier and they only send you one”, explains John Soto, the shop manager. He has a waiting list of 200 people: “There could be 800, but we decided to stop signing people up because we don’t know when or if they will arrive. Every morning, about ten customers ask me for these models. In the afternoon, just as many. And it’s not that it’s cheap, the price starts at 600€ (60€ more with a game).
They do have stocks of the second most popular electronic ‘toy’, the Nintendo Switch console, but Soto fears that they will soon run out: “In a few days we won’t have any left due to the high demand. And it will be difficult to replenish them, as the supplier distributes them in dribs and drabs, one or two at the most in each order. He predicts that “by mid-December” the Switch stock will be “very low” and that it will be “difficult” to satisfy all the requests.
Ibiza’s short supply: “Either not everything you order arrives or it takes time to come. The reason? Because of freight rates, they have risen so much that they wait to fill the containers before sending them. And then you add in the distribution bottleneck”
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