Newer to the game but have definitely noticed this for SHIPPING. Shipping costs have gone crazy! UPS is adding surcharges left and right while also capping the # of shipments many of their volume business customers can make (which I’ve never heard of in my lifetime).
That, combined with global supply chain impacts, material shortages, many factories still at reduced capacity/production- it all kind of “adds up” but it really sucks if you can’t do what a big corporation does and just pass that increase off down the line somewhere.
Mainly hoping things improve and we can see some things get more back to normal - and not have to adjust to this becoming the new normal...
Jealous of anyone who lives near their supplier and can do warehouse pickups right now 😅