Furniture has been one of the biggest casualties of the global shipping and supply chain crisis as costs to transport a sofa or table are much higher than a pocket-sized iPhone or a pair of trainers.
In some instances, container costs for sofas, tables and chairs have risen as much as 1,200 per cent since the start of the pandemic, forcing furniture retailers to raise prices.
“If you think about the size of an iPhone and how many of those you could fit in a container and you think of the size of our things, the cost per product really does shoot up,” said Steve Carson, chief executive of UK-based sofa retailer ScS.
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