Posted on 03/18/2020 1:13:57 PM PDT by Texas Fossil
I’ve been past the WM headquarters.
It looks like a state penitentiary building.
Pretty obvious they don’t waste money on frills.
I can imagine when vendors come in, they are immediately thinking “wow be gotta bid the minimum”.
Yeah. God bless....
Yep. The basic vocabulary of the major university programs.
I worked on a project a few years back in the NYC area. One major grocery chain had just opened a store in Manhattan that was the first of its kind for that chain: It had no storage capacity on site at all. They implemented a "truck-to-shelf" inventory model where everything that was delivered to the store went right on a shelf and was ready for sale.
If you want to hear a startling figure, think of this: At the time we did this project, they calculated that the retail stores on the island of Manhattan have an inventory of dairy products that is depleted -- on average -- every SEVEN HOURS. That's a staggering number that shows how fine-tuned the supply chains are in areas where real estate costs are high.
Yes. Dem Panic = Demon Panic
reminds me of the old classic:
Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds
by Mackay (in the 1850’s)
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/24518
The Mississippi scheme — The south-sea bubble — The tulipomania — The alchymists — Modern prophecies — Fortune-telling — The magnetisers — Influence of politics and religion on the hair and beard — The crusades — The witch mania — The slow poisoners — Haunted houses — Popular follies of great cities — Popular admiration of great thieves — Duels and ordeals — Relics.
Yes. I was in the wholesale hardware distribution business (wore a number of hats) for 35 years, with 2 privately held companies.
When I started in 1972, there were 225 full line wholesale distributors in the USA. Now there are under 15 (may be even under 10) depending upon how you define it.
Yes, and the people in small towns are more considerate of each other. They actually help each other. Have a long history of it.
The Lying media, coordinated by the ComDem POLs are responsible for all of this. They are being paid by the globalist to take down President Trump even if it destroys the USA.
It is our duty to STOP it.
Media freaks we warned, we have long memories of your crimes.
You need not explain wholesale distribution to me. I live it for 35 years. I know the history and the players.
My daughter lives in N VA, she had surgery about 3 weeks ago. I drove there to help her before and after surgery. It is 1550 miles from my home to her’s. I drove it in 2 days on my way there and back. On the return trip I stopped for the night in Little Rock, AR. I-30 was totally stopped by trucks as far as I could see, it was around 2:30AM. I saw a Best Western motel and crashed for the evening. The hotel clerk told me it happened often. It show where we actually are.
Local Fry’s and Albertson’s are now limiting to 2 items per person paper products such as paper towels, toilet paper, etc; sanitizers; rubbing alcohol; and water (They did have water back today).
Wal-Mart broke ground on the new campus last year. It’s gonna be pretty epic.
But yeah. Lowest bidder... ALWAYS
Don’t move here. This place is Sodom and Gomorrah.
We have a great local grocery store. It has the BEST meat department. Done in house. Always fresh and I already have 2 freezers full of meat. Chicken, steak, pork, and some fish. Most of the fish I buy is from the HEB about and hour drive away. It is fresh, not frozen. We love fresh Salmon and fresh Cod. We do keep frozen catfish too.
The toilet paper thing makes NO sense to me. No sense at all. There is no shortage, just distribution lag.
I have a full pantry and we did not need to stock up for this mess. It was already full.
I am from Minnesota and currently live in California and miss having walleye or sunfish to eat.
I just did a search and whad you know. You can have it shipped. Gotta but a big order.
Walleye Direct
https://www.walleyedirect.com/
Oceanside Seafood - here you can order just 2/lbs $17.99 / lb.
https://www.oceansideseafood.com/products/walleye-fillets
Walmart and Sam’s Club also have them.
I guess I will eating more fish.
My mother was from Minnesota, I know how good Walleye are. We would go to Minnesota to see her family about every 3 years. Very good memories.
Minnesota Winters are too cold for me, even in Duluth and Lake Superior. and it is way to far from Texas. (smile)
For about a year I’ve been getting e-mails to sign up for orders of Alaskan Salmon and other varieties. Don’t know anything about the company, have not tried them.
I had close friends who were from my home town and spent most of their life after WWII in Alaska. They both taught school in Anchorage. When they retired they moved back to Texas. They had my father buy a home for them here, sight unseen. Later they bought the much larger home next door to that home. We bought it from the husband’s widow when she went to the nursing home.
Small town.
With my industrial engineering background, I have a different perspective. I provide support for a small electronics manufacture. I had advised against relying on Chinese suppliers for anything due to the trade wars / tariffs. And I always recommended stocking up on major sellers to handle spikes in demand.
With the Wuhan virus, I’ve never been more right. We have a 2 month supply of popular products and probably longer of the slower sellers. I’d already identified alternate, American suppliers for a variety of components. We’ll still get connectors and cable in time, regardless of China’s capacity.
People who relied on just-in-time delivery from overseas are screwed.
Interesting. Dependency is dangerous for a lot of things.
Along those lines, do you know of a source for foam core twin lead cable? I used it for a lot of RF projects and now it looks like everything went to low loss coax cable. (low loss for coax does not come close to low loss for twin lead.)
Belden was once “the source” for that, but I have not been able to find a replacement.
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