My brother in law has been a night stocker for Walmart for 20+ years. He told us today that he’s received two hefty bonuses from Walmart in the past month. He said that from what he can tell, the panic grocery buying has not depleted the suppliers, but has emptied out the Walmart warehouses. He said it’s just going to take a bit of time for the pipeline to fill up again. He’s thrilled with his job right now.
Thank you for this info!
And thank your b-i-l for his service!
We are all in this war together!
I hope that, in the aftermath of this crisis, we have some Mike Rowe (Dirty Jobs TV series) style reporting on the farm/raw material-to-the-retail-shelf supply chain to emphasize how well organized and flawlessly it usually works. And, flawlessly or not, it works 24/7/365 year in and year out because the work is never really finished.
Yet, because it is behind the scenes (and it is meant to be that way), we don’t appreciate the thought, experience, inventiveness, plain hard work, and dedication required to put product on the shelves. The focus is now on food and household consumables, but the same behind-the-scenes effort and dedication applies to every field of activity in modern society.
It is a real marvel of continuous human cooperation to achieve universally recognized worthwhile goals that we can see all around us if we will just open our eyes a little wider.
Cooperation, not conflict, is the real genius of humanity.