Our food supply: When it’s gone…it’s gone.
Liz Bennett
UndergroundMedic.com
Jun 03, 2014
It’s often said that we are only nine meals from anarchy. The theory behind the saying is simple. Most people have no more than a three day supply of food in their homes, and that equates to nine meals before they start to go hungry.
Some believe that many governments would take advantage of this and use it against their own people in times of civil unrest. History shows us there is justification for holding this view.
The delivery and supply chain employed by major stores across the world is very simple and designed to increase profits by reducing waste.
Each time a barcode is scanned at the checkout it sends a message to the warehouse that a particular item has been sold. Warehouse staff restock the shelves having scanned the barcode on the boxes they are unpacking. That triggers a message to a distribution centre, where a tally is kept and the required number of boxes, each full of an individual item, will then be dispatched on the next truck heading to that store.
This system is why you may be told ” We are having some more in tomorrow madam” They really are, they know that if it is not in the store it is in the distribution centre/truck and it will be arriving the next day.
There are of course other systems that come into play. Large stores that sell clothing etc will have sales projected on what they sold during the same season the previous year and that will be the stock starting point.
There is a couple of major flaws in this just in time delivery system, namely that it assumes what is true today will also be true tomorrow, and that it relies on electricity.
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