About 18 hours of food on the shelves of modern grocery stores in the bar code computer era. Americas just one 70’s like nationwide truckers strike from trouble IMO .
Will look for this show....sounds like your “razor thin” timeline confirms such .....:o)
Stay Safe...
Indeed. And it’s scary.
BTW, too much efficiency means fewer donations to food banks.
Unintended consequences...
“About 18 hours of food on the shelves of modern grocery stores in the bar code computer era. Americas just one 70’s like nationwide truckers strike from trouble IMO .”
TOTALLY, and they can keep it. I’m at roughly 6 months of food and 4 years of every other non-perishable I can think of (other than gasoline, as that’s not practical to store - but I do have some and as long I don’t drive I have plenty for cooking and hot water).
Others, I suspect, look at the always-stocked shelves at their supermarkets and the huge quantities at Sam’s Club and figure they can stop by, once things go south. They will have to learn things the hard way, I guess.
Another way to look at it...there is roughly one Sam’s Club for every 100,000 members in the United States. At any given moment in time, there may be about 100,000 rolls of toilet paper in a store. Well, that’s one roll per member. It will not take all that many members to snap up that toilet paper once things go south.