Empty grocery-store shelves are here to stay

Albertsons Cos had been expecting that supply outages would be improving by now, but “Omicron has put a bit of a dent” in that, chief executive officer Vivek Sankaran said Tuesday.

NEW YORK: Social-media sites are full of photographs of empty grocery-store shelves, and the head of one of the biggest US supermarket chains says the situation will take weeks to improve.

Albertsons Cos had been expecting that supply outages would be improving by now, but “Omicron has put a bit of a dent” in that, chief executive officer Vivek Sankaran said Tuesday.