Posted on 08/31/2020 9:17:08 AM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal
All true bro!
The sheep can go back to sleep or crack open another beer.
SEEING MORE EMPTY SHELVES, WEIRD PRODUCTS, AND RECALLS ARE ALL TIME HIGH, EVEN DOG FOOD. NO FREEZERS TO BUY EITHER. BEEN LOOKING FOR 6 MONTHS, MINE IS OLD, SMALL.
BEST LOOK WHERE THEY ARE MADE. GE, OFF BRANDS ARE CHINESE. FRIGIDAIRE HAS BAD REVIEWS. WHIRLPOOL JUST SUPPORTED BLM.
“Grocers cannot keep a lot of merchandise in stock for long.”
Chain stores receive multiple deliveries daily from their warehouses. Let one day go by without the scheduled deliveries and there is a major problem. Two days and the shelves are practically empty.
BUT...the big bottleneck is the warehouses. Each day the regional warehouse receive deliveries from across the country to keep your local store in operation.
If deliveries to the warehouses drop by 1/2 for two days MAJOR PROBLEMS.
VERY SIMPLE DESCRIPTION OF JITS
JITS, Just In Time Supply, is the culprit. JITS is based on the assumption of uninterrupted deliveries of product at the warehouses that is shipped out within 24 hours when the next delivery arrives for uninterrupted delivery to the stores.
The goal is for the warehouses to ship out their last boxes of product as the truck with the new stock is bumping the dock to unload.
Accordingly, your local store is putting it’s last case of milk in the display case when the truck arrives with the new stock.
Even the “local” chains and co-op warehouses operate on JITS.
The days of the store having a three day supply on hand are long gone.
Good points.
This is not the “fault” of The Virus ... it’s the result of the deliberate actions of politicians in the developed countries (e.g., governors, mayors and unelected bureaucrats in the U.S.) locking down their economies. They were warned by international humanitarian agencies that this would happen when they did it — you know, just to “flatten the curve” — back in April, yet they continue it to the present ... despicable, vile and immoral creatures that they are.
The last time there was a shortage of canning lids was when Nixon instituted price controls. Nobody wanted to make them at the price allowed and all of a sudden people decided they wanted to can a lot of stuff. A lot of expensive off-brands showed up.
Now we probably have the situation that there are only a few canning lid manufacturers and they cannot meet the demand.
https://www.thomasnet.com/products/jar-lids-43983006-1.html
It was Deep State NWO a-holes that caused 100 percent of the problems.
...tons of the Kellogg’s products from the summer harvest)
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Commercial sweet corn in my zone 4 area was all harvested over a week and a half ago. Trucks rumbling by for days from the fields nearby, now finished.
Various veggie crops are staggered, I think. I know the ads for truck drivers for the harvest began in June. Don’t see them, now. Used to know guys who worked summers running forklifts in Libby facilities.
When we spent some time living in FL, they began planting the tomato crop in the Fall. Now, a lot of produce seems to be greenhouse/hydroponic, which extends the season.
But, people are reporting, informally, that various items are selling out quickly and there are random-seeming shortages of various food items and paper products everywhere. They don’t seem to last, though.
I wonder if the mask mandates cause people to shop less often and to stock up when they finally do visit stores?
rice/pasta/sugar/salt/...at least the essentials...
I don’t consider myself a prepper...but I have enough to last a few weeks and I don’t have to run into town all the time for this and that...I buy on sale....I save time and money all around.
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