China’s biggest shopping season is getting squeezed by the global supply-chain crunch.

The annual shopping festival, known as “Singles Day,” has over the years grown from a one-day shopping event into weeks of promotions that rake in more revenue than Black Friday and Cyber Monday combined. However, this year’s event has been dampened by production snarls.

This post first appeared on wsj.com

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