OK I stand corrected! Was speaking to the lady on the checkout about the shortage of pasta - she had no idea it came from Italy.
That’s not strictly true. Most of the world’s spaghetti comes from Switzerland, in the Italian speaking Ticino region.
OK I stand corrected! Was speaking to the lady on the checkout about the shortage of pasta - she had no idea it came from Italy.
I tend to buy what Sainsburys give me Nectar points for each week, and for the last couple of months it has been pasta, leeks and sausages, so we also have quite a bit of pasta. But this maybe implies they have a lot of excess pasta that they need to shift.
Perhaps you are ignorant of the debate currently being had in the business world about the folly of just in time supply chains. They have been designed to maximize short term profits and bolster share prices in the obsession with productivity. I have been taking part in that debate. I am assuming you have not.
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/getting-caught-short-rethinking-supply-chain-risk-brendon-booth
Haven’t read whole thread but a very selfish aspect of this is people booking deliveries when they are able to go themselves.
All the supermarket delivery slots should be left available for older and more vulnerable people. There are, apparently, currently no delivery slots available.
Do you live in the Brighton area?
ASDA have had plenty of delivery slots throughout. On Friday, we booked a delivery for today.
Went to Aldi in Rustington after work yesterday and it was stripped bare of lots of items. Rice/pasta, tinned beans, tinned veg, any form of bread, crisps/Doritos.
I went to the wholesalers on Friday for our normal weekly re-stock for my business. I’ve never seen the car park so full in 19 years, loads of people there I have never seen before, you get to see the same people every week. All the JCLs had the maximum of large packs of loo rolls they were allowed,but the thing that really annoyed me, was all the floor cleaner we use and all the anti bacterial spray, for benches tables etc, had gone. We need this stuff to keep food prep areas safe, it’s more or less demanded by theEHOs that you use it.
It won’t have any effect on a virus, anyway, it’s anti bacterial not anti virus, but, these panic buying wankers are too thick to understand that.
We've just decided to buy a mini freezer tomorrow as ours is so small that we'd soon run out of food if we both had to isolate, which is quite possible with her working on the front line
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We've just decided to buy a mini freezer tomorrow as ours is so small that we'd soon run out of food if we both had to isolate, which is quite possible with her working on the front line
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They might have delivery slots, what they have in stock may be an entirely different discussion [emoji29]
I abhor excess stockpiling at a cost to others; that said, what people aren’t factoring in when they see loaded trolleys is that a lot of people are potentially buying food for more than one household and potentially for elderly relatives.
Just In Time management was devised by the Japanese so that businesses don’t over stock, don’t get left with unwanted stock or find that they run out of key components. It’s simply common sense in an ever competitive world. As someone with some knowledge of the business world, many a business has found itself in trouble from overstocking / poor stock management.
Yes, almost all businesses aim to maximise profit, that’s no crime. If you’re against that, you’ll forever be frustrated living in The West, North Korea a good alternative.
The success of the Coronavirus has brought a nearly unique event, very few knew it was coming. Manufacturers, distributors and retailers will now be working 24-7 to fill shop shelves (and maximise their dreaded profits), to redress an issue caused partly by selfish hoarders and eBay chancers.