LUBBOCK, Texas, Jan 16 (Reuters) – Phillip Howard pointed towards a stack of black ski pants piled atop a counter in his winter season sports activities store as evidence of the hurdles tiny organization entrepreneurs continue to face as the pandemic drags on. The pants were being supposed to get there by August at Troy’s Ski Lubbock store in west Texas – perfectly before his five-thirty day period hot season of promoting that kicks off in Oct. Instead, they came from China the first 7 days of January, delayed by supply-chain failures. “Late-arriving merchandise seriously kills us,” Howard mentioned this 7 days, noting that a number of other products experienced…