Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

Danish supermarket chain is setting up "Emergency Stores"

swiss.social

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

11–20 of 385 posts

Re: Danish supermarket chain is setting up "Emergency Stores"

#11

Post by daniel_iversen »

metalman wrote: post #8

[flagged]

Hah yeah Denmark is very boring compared to many other countries :) ... and not meant as a warrantless dig against a large country with a high ratio of pistols-per-capita, but I did research it yesterday and from what I can tell America hasn't changed the 10 rights in their Bill Of Rights ever, whereas Denmark has made major revisions to its entire constitution multiple times.

Re: Danish supermarket chain is setting up "Emergency Stores"

#12

Post by eddythompson80 »

unethical_ban wrote: post #2

Three days seems low, but any resilience is better than no resilience.

Well, there is always the question of who’s gonna pay for that resiliency. We see it all the time in software deployment. After each extended outage of a major network or cloud/service provider, there is always a flurry of sudden interest in disaster recovery, multi-zonal deployments, failover solutions, and redundancy up and down the chain of everything. 6 months or a year later, people and organizations get sick of paying for that. They either nerf it, making it just a useless checkbox or just abandon it completely because “if us-east-2 is down, then everything is down. Who cares”. A couple of years pass, then another incident happens, rinse and repeat.

Re: Danish supermarket chain is setting up "Emergency Stores"

#13

Post by decimalenough »

0xfaded wrote: post #10
metalman wrote: post #8

[flagged]

The Danish word for hoarding is "hamstering". Perhaps the most adorable thing about the language. (P.S. the pronunciation of hygge is anything but hyggelig)

I always wondered why, until I actually got a hamster. Turns out that when presented with a large amount of food, they "hamster" it by stuffing their massive cheeks until they're bulging, then scurry off to consume in peace.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-3x7dLXoAk

Re: Danish supermarket chain is setting up "Emergency Stores"

#14

Post by tokai »

Feels a bit like cheeky marketing from Salling Group, when its just a concept years away from being rolled out. I don't see them running stores with sub optimal stock and other complexities, just for the good of their hearts. Or maybe they just looked at the odds and concluded that likelihood of a lockdown-like event is enough to make it a sound investment.

Re: Danish supermarket chain is setting up "Emergency Stores"

#15

Post by darknavi »

daniel_iversen wrote: post #11
metalman wrote: post #8

[flagged]

Hah yeah Denmark is very boring compared to many other countries :) ... and not meant as a warrantless dig against a large country with a high ratio of pistols-per-capita, but I did research it yesterday and from what I can tell America hasn't changed the 10 rights in their Bill Of Rights ever, whereas Denmark has made major revisions to its entire constitution multiple times.

I'd add that some U.S. states are actively attempting to make it harder/impossible to amend their state's constitution!

https://missouriindependent.com/2025/09/08/missouri-house-ad...

Re: Danish supermarket chain is setting up "Emergency Stores"

#16

Post by jfengel »

daniel_iversen wrote: post #11
metalman wrote: post #8

[flagged]

Hah yeah Denmark is very boring compared to many other countries :) ... and not meant as a warrantless dig against a large country with a high ratio of pistols-per-capita, but I did research it yesterday and from what I can tell America hasn't changed the 10 rights in their Bill Of Rights ever, whereas Denmark has made major revisions to its entire constitution multiple times.

We change our Bill of Rights all the time. We just do it by "reinterpreting" it, i.e. applying the prejudices of the last 4 or 5 Presidents.

Conveniently, none of it actually means anything at all, so it is routinely reinterpreted to mean exactly the opposite of what it might appear to mean.

That's not quite true. You still can't quarter soldiers in somebody's house. We Americans have a firm fixed belief in the Third Amendment.

Re: Danish supermarket chain is setting up "Emergency Stores"

#17

Post by ksec »

>The idea is that no one should be more than 50 km from such a store and it should prevent hoarding/panic buying as people will know basic food will be available in an emergency.

I dont think that is how it works? That is assuming people wont flock out to buy everything in the emergency store. And do people visit it every day or are these "Emergency Stores". After all they need to replenish stock.

Or are these simply some form of marketing play?

Off-Topic: Its been while since I last visited a The Mastodon site and it seems a lot faster than before.

Re: Danish supermarket chain is setting up "Emergency Stores"

#19

Post by fragmede »

larholm wrote: post #3
unethical_ban wrote: post #2

Three days seems low, but any resilience is better than no resilience.

These stores are not supposed to prepare you for three days of resilience in advance. They are meant to be available as reliable and functioning stores throughout a crisis period. Your go-to destination for purchasing vital goods during the crisis.

It's the local supermarket. How many days in advance am I supposed to have food for? (I have prepper quantities of food and don't know what's normal. three days seems pretty normal to me.)

Re: Danish supermarket chain is setting up "Emergency Stores"

#20

Post by eru »

ksec wrote: post #17

>The idea is that no one should be more than 50 km from such a store and it should prevent hoarding/panic buying as people will know basic food will be available in an emergency. I dont think that is how it works? That is assuming people wont flock out to buy everything in the emergency store. And do people visit it every day or are these "Emergency Stores". After all they need to replenish stock. Or are these simply…

> That is assuming people wont flock out to buy everything in the emergency store.

Well, you could make everything really expensive in these emergency stores during an emergency.

Post reply on HN