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This is The Story of a Brand with your host, Ramon Vela.

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But let me ask you this, you know, because you have such an interesting supply chain and, you know, it's a little, like I said, early on, it's like you're going above and beyond what you, what most other brands are doing.

Has that caused issues, especially right now, like with the pandemic?

Did you guys have any issue with supply chain and, you know, getting product out and inventory

and things like that?

That's a good question.

I mean, we, I think we see challenges that we bring upon ourselves with the supply chain all the time. And I say that meaning that because we're always pushing to do things better than we did it in a previous season and more sustainable than we did it last season, that we're always creating new challenges for ourselves that, you know, contribute to supply chain issues potentially.

We haven't really seen any specific delays or major challenges due to COVID right now on the

manufacturing side and material side.

There's definitely been some delays, but nothing that's

really thrown major projects for the season. We've seen a lot of more kind of issues and delays,

even domestically, you know, from the warehouse and logistics side of things to congestion at

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