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...?
The National Guard gives out MREs
“What happens when the warehouses run out of stuff...?”
Acquaintance that works in the Walmart distribution system at the warehouse to warehouse level said the containers from China have pretty much stopped.
That means that the regional distribution centers that distribute to stores will stop receiving shipments shortly if not already.
And that means that some stuff will be out of stock for realsies, soon.
“What happens when the warehouses run out of stuff...?”
Well, to me that means we’re out of luck. To the Flubros, new stuff will materialize out of thin air. After all who needs supply lines other than the military!