The kroger reddit page is insane.
I guess that this is the first nationwide ‘crisis’ and the JIT is having a problem like we thought it might.
Previous ‘crisis’ stuff involved a small region (blizzard, ‘cane’, etc) and corporate just shifted deliveries to that one region to compensate.
There IS no compensate for this when it’s nationwide.
Which explains Kroger begging for employees now.
I hear their warehouses are insanity this morning.
Ditto Walmart distribution systems.
And fedex is having issues because walmart.com has so much more business than it did a cpl weeks ago.
Comments from reddit/kroger. This is what JIT capitulation looks like:
“Truck cancellations
Cincy/Dayton division here. I work night shift grocery and just heard that my stores grocery truck tonight as well as Monday’s have been cancelled. We didn’t receive a frozen truck last night as well. Anyone else experiencing this?
EDIT: Perishable and frozen trucks have now been cancelled too.”
“Cincy div here, my store received the frozen truck and some of the grocery truck but no perishables at all.
Edited to add; the warehouses can’t handle the 250,000+ picks. Highest they’ve experienced is around 120,000. Safe to say the warehouse is probably hiring atm.”
I’m gonna make a WAG that the ‘warehouse picks’ involve pallets and cases of stuff. Which is totally impressive.
What happens when the warehouses run out of stuff...?
Like that doctor said in Trump's press conference, it wasn't just the tests that were the problem - it was the entire system. The system worked fine for “typical” flu seasons or local outbreaks. But it wasn't designed for this big of an event. But they are quickly ramping it up to allow private industry into the system.
But just think of all of the other systems that aren't designed for this type of thing. We already see it with the firemen. If one station is at a huge fire and need help other town's can come and help fight the fire. And other departments cover the other calls.
But when 30 firefighters quickly go down due to this virus (quarantine, and now many of them are sick) - that sort of redundancy in the system starts to break down. And other systems - police, utilities, etc.
This thread’s article claiming the virus is NOT airborne...
https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3824599/posts