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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 vasco »

cl0ckt0wer wrote: post #128
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…

What is the difference between this and a slightly larger warehouse?

Marketing

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

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Post by vasco »

It's funny that these guys found a way to exploit the war to get free marketing from probably a warehouse expansion / warehouse-store hybrid they'd do anyway, and people think they are some prescient preppers. If war starts, 3 days supplies helps with effectively nothing and people will go to supermarkets to hoard anyway.

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

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Post by autoexec »

cl0ckt0wer wrote: post #128
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…

What is the difference between this and a slightly larger warehouse?

Intent and the number of goods kept on hand.

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

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Post by fy20 »

OptionOfT wrote: post #96
TazeTSchnitzel wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't think Denmark in particular is preparing, because at the end of the year their national postal service will cease to deliver letters (after the government removed the legal requirement for it to do so), and more than 85% of Danes will only be able to receive government and commercial letters in digital form via a privately owned cloud service (e-Boks). That is an alarming level of concentration. If I were hyp…

Wow. I'm in software and my whole house is as automated as can be, but I want my important documents physical, and delivered via the mail. Credit card bills, notices, etc. I don't want to have to log in every time I want to check a bill / notification, only to have to pull out my Yubikey or phone. Not to mention having to click 'no' to all the popups about new credit cards or subscription upgrades.

My country does this, however there are multiple authentication options.

The main one is a private company that provides an authentication system using private certificates. When you try to login to an authenticated website your phone pops up a message asking you to verify the login and enter your PIN. That signs the request with your private certificate and sends it back to the provider. Other actions such as transfering money or signing contracts require you to authenticate using a different certificate, with a different PIN. The private certificate stays on your device (there are mechanisms to generate a new one if you lose your device).

The other options are ID cards with a USB card reader or a mobile signature in the SIM card of your phone. For government website and utility companies you can usually authenticate with your bank as another option.

I prefer it to username/password as all I need is my ID number (which unlike the US doesn't need to be private) and my phone. And basically everything you need to use to adult uses this system.

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

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Post by HumanOstrich »

netfortius wrote: post #122
throwawayqqq11 wrote: post #92

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> stock shelf-stable products in these stores and at some point in their shelf life, transfer them out to other stores for actual consumption Back in my days in retail, we were ordered to put resupply as FILO into the shelfs. It makes sense to sell the oldest products first. So why the transfer shuffle?

> FILO Hard to address the consumers' tendency to "reach out in the back", to get longer expiration time products.

That's a paddlin'.

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

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Post by autoexec »

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?

Between the threat of war, the fragility of the systems we depend on, and the uncertainty of climate change it seems like a good idea to be a little more prepared for disaster than we've felt the need to be.

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

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Post by vodou »

jamesblonde wrote: post #129
chvid wrote: post #118

One of our biggest practical vulnerabilities is that our payment and electronic id infrastructure (nets, dankort, mitid) has been sold off to a private company (Mastercard) even though it was at one point a government owned and developed setup.

In Sweden, we have Swish, thank God. We don't have Greenland either, so people aren't as worried about 'exogenous shocks'.

Swish is great, but it is sensitive infrastructure. It has already been down multiple times due to DDoS attacks (together with BankId). Don't let Swish completely replace a stash of cash at home.

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

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Post by schainks »

cl0ckt0wer wrote: post #128
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…

What is the difference between this and a slightly larger warehouse?

One of the design requirements is no one should be located more than 50km from a store, so I wouldn't be surprised if larger warehouses are part of the plan when that 50km radius includes densely populated areas.

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

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Post by austin-cheney »

There is a regional chain where I live in Texas, HEB, that has a similar solution they solve via emergency distribution schedule. They found that environmental disasters can be profitable to operate at a loss and support the community because they are able to come back online faster than the competition and minimize disruption to regular operations.

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

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Post by ksimukka »

chvid wrote: post #118

One of our biggest practical vulnerabilities is that our payment and electronic id infrastructure (nets, dankort, mitid) has been sold off to a private company (Mastercard) even though it was at one point a government owned and developed setup.

What are your thoughts on Vipps MobilePay?
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