Ugly Christmas sweaters, other holiday goods held up in ports
By Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press Troy Warren for CNT #Business ‘There’ll definitely be a shortage,’ one business owner said Go back just a year ago and it wouldn’t have mattered that three 40-foot corrugated metal shipping containers stuffed with thousands of ugly holiday sweaters couldn’t make their way out of a California port. Who was going out to the bars? Or heading to a big family dinner? Who worried about buying a new quirky sweater when life looked grim as COVID-19 cases soared? Fred Hajjar, president of Michigan-based UglyChristmasSweater.com, sold a lot of holiday lounge pants and pajamas last year as…