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Danish supermarket chain is setting up "Emergency Stores"

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

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Post by glxxyz »

14 wrote: post #29
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…

We all saw what happened with Covid and panic buying. I remember when initial reports about it started coming out and something about it told me this might actually become something serious. So I went and loaded up on flour and yeast, rice, cooking oil, lots of non perishable items and a bunch of meat in a huge costco run before it took off. I had enough to last me a good year if my family had to ration. Then it spre…

This reads like "Confessions of a Panic Buyer".

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Post by Barrin92 »

ambicapter wrote: post #35

Wait, so we're now approaching risk levels high enough that's its economically feasible for businesses to prepare for situations where their stores lose power, telecom, and resupply? Are we already preparing for land war across western Europe?

we may or may not but I don't think this is reflective of it. This is just the fragility of digital societies were one hack or outage can kill entire national payment systems. A few decades ago any store could run three days without power or telecoms.

Here in Germany foreigners often scoff about how prevalent cash is, but to this day nobody has yet invented a payment technology that works without electricity, without transaction costs, and without a third party. As far as I'm concerned cash is still the most futuristic technology we ever invented

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

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Post by glxxyz »

abdullahkhalids wrote: post #49
glxxyz wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It sounds like the company is doing it as a community service. It doesn't make 'business sense' except perhaps by improving the company's image. Companies also donate to charities etc. “This is our core task and a responsibility we take on, and we also believe that it is timely […] that we – like other countries – prepare for possible crisis situations, which a good and constructive dialogue with the Minister of Publ…

It's important to note that the Salling Group is privately owned with only a few owners [1]. It's easier for such companies to do such things than a publicly owned one. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salling_Group

Public companies do this sort of thing too, or at least they used to. It's typically grouped under 'Corporate Social Responsibility'. They aren't doing it out of pure altruism:

From https://benevity.com/resources/corporate-social-responsibili... "CSR increases customer retention and loyalty: Research shows that 87% of Americans are more likely to buy a product from a company that they can align their values with, and over half of all consumers are willing to pay extra for a product if they’re buying from a company with a sturdy CSR strategy."

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

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Post by maxerickson »

ambicapter wrote: post #35

Wait, so we're now approaching risk levels high enough that's its economically feasible for businesses to prepare for situations where their stores lose power, telecom, and resupply? Are we already preparing for land war across western Europe?

3 days isn't very long, it's reasonable to look at this as a generic resiliency thing rather than response to some identifiable risk.

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Post by maxerickson »

quantummagic wrote: post #36
ambicapter wrote: post #35

Wait, so we're now approaching risk levels high enough that's its economically feasible for businesses to prepare for situations where their stores lose power, telecom, and resupply? Are we already preparing for land war across western Europe?

The economic collapse of the west. The great reset is coming...

How is 72 hours of rice going to matter?

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Post by saguntum »

heartbreak wrote: post #42
maxbond wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Everyone should give that some thought but look at Texas. In 2021 they were devastated by a snowstorm. This year they were devastated by flooding. Not to pick on Texas, they aren't the only ones caught under prepared for severe weather. Wildfires and drought in the western states is another thing we're under prepared for. And look at the hoarding of toilet paper etc. in 2020. I presume there's been problems in Europe…

Texas also has a grocery store chain that is particularly well-prepared for disasters. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/22/us/texas-heb-winter-storm...

Yup, sometimes people joke that H-E-B is the 4th branch of the Texas government given how much they do during disasters. When food was going to go bad and payment terminals were having issues during the big 2021 winter power outage, pictures of them just giving out cartfuls of groceries were circulating on social media.

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Post by catlikesshrimp »

maxerickson wrote: post #65
quantummagic wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The economic collapse of the west. The great reset is coming...

How is 72 hours of rice going to matter?

That depends. How many people from the list are we leaving in for dinner?

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Post by dcow »

chrisphilip wrote: post #22
eru wrote: post #20

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> 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.

Isn’t this just price gouging which is illegal in much of the US at least, I don’t know about internationally.

I think there’s a subtle difference between charging everyone $100 per umbrella in a rain storm vs charging $100 for your last few umbrellas. Former is price gouging; latter is just economics.

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

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Post by tshaddox »

0xWTF wrote: post #53

In case you haven't contemplated this logistics challenge before: the key is you need to stock shelf-stable products in these stores and at some point in their shelf life, transfer them out to other stores for actual consumption and back fill the emergency stores with fresh lots of new shelf stable products. You're just buying more shelf-stable supply once and then managing the transit through the supply chain with s…

Is that so? I presumed they would always be open as normal stores, but prepared to stay open as “emergency stores” when necessary.

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Post by lovich »

maxerickson wrote: post #64
ambicapter wrote: post #35

Wait, so we're now approaching risk levels high enough that's its economically feasible for businesses to prepare for situations where their stores lose power, telecom, and resupply? Are we already preparing for land war across western Europe?

3 days isn't very long, it's reasonable to look at this as a generic resiliency thing rather than response to some identifiable risk.

It’s also reasonable to look at it as a “the populace goes nuts every time there’s some minor shock to the logistics chain, so might as well prepare for that reaction”
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