Sales representative assists a shopper looking at washing machines at a store. (Photographer Tim Boyle/Bloomberg)
Consumer electronics and appliance makers are beefing up the supply chain amid growing fears over the Omicron variant of the coronavirus. But the problem lies elsewhere.Industry executives BloombergQuint spoke with said there are reasons to be concerned about demand during the prolonged pandemic. Consumers have either satiated their appetite for new stuff or are still uneasy about big-budget purchases. To make that worse, inflation h...