Back orders remain healthy because of demand from the Gulf.
An increase in back orders signaled that businesses were not keeping up with demand.
The iPod, which has faced large back orders, serves as an example.
By late October we had back orders of 10,000 each on four or five styles.
The start-up is just catching up with back orders and continues to ramp up production at its contract manufacturers.
Nevertheless, Amazon.com sold out its entire inventory of the devices as soon as the product went on sale, requiring numerous customers to wait for months on back orders.
They said they would also hold back orders for a half-dozen planes in the sixth batch if Lockheed could not do the retrofit work faster.
He has paused his cheerleading only once before — during the dot-com crash more than a decade ago, when Cisco was unprepared for customers sharply cutting back orders.
Some stores may be in a position to weather the downturn, after cutting back orders and curbing expenses since the beginning of the year.
Patrick Yap, manager of B Chemist, a department store and pharmacy in Manhattan that sells toys, said he has more than 700 back orders for Webkinz.
Luciana Machado, who started reading comics at the suggestion of her boyfriend almost 15 years ago, said she often had problems getting back orders of comics.
