You have heard ASA talk a great deal about the looming labor shortages our industry will face over the next 10 years and what our association is doing to help attract the next generation.
If you go to industry meetings, you’ve seen this trend coming. As distributors, we also have seen the significant labor shortages that our contractor customers are facing. In fact, most distributors know they have product sitting in the warehouse that is earmarked for specific jobs that our contractor customers can’t get to because they don’t have the labor to start the next project.