Is Black Friday (26 November) the Drop-Dead Date for Chaos in Logistics?

 Well....yes.

If you walk into most stores and the electronics area is only 50-percent 'full' or toy area is barely 70-percent 'full'....then it'll be noticed and by Saturday afternoon.....the shelves will be empty.

The effort by Amazon for damage control?  I suspect you will get 'ordered' when you sign on and 'click'.....but get a message four days later to say the item is on back-order.  New delivery date?  Probably four to six weeks away....if you are lucky.

So it'll start by Monday after Black Friday....people asking President Biden how to resolve this and getting a 8-minute speech on how things were in WW II, or how Covid is with us in the long term.

Settle back and prepare for that Monday, and how you view the landscape from that point on.