New supply-chain crisis during pandemic: not enough cans for food

An excerpt from NPR Marketplace:

Still, from a business perspective, it may not make sense for soup and can companies to invest large amounts of money to boost production, given things may return to normal in perhaps a year.

“We all want it to go back to the way it was,” said Rudi Leuschner, supply-chain management professor at Rutgers University. “I also don’t think that when this is all over that people are going to keep hoarding weeks of food in their house.”