Retailers struggling with shortage of packaging materials

Czech online retailers are struggling with a shortage of cardboard boxes and paper packaging and a significant increase in prices, Novinky.cz reported. The prices of carton and other packaging has risen globally by about 50 percent this year as a result of the coronavirus crisis. Retailers say the shortage is proving to be a problem which sometimes causes delays in deliveries, but they say it should not affect the cost of pre-Christmas shipments.