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

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Post by guappa »

dijit wrote: post #260
guappa wrote: post #258

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Well I've seen a lot of incompetent cashiers. Especially in summer when the real ones are on vacation. I'm not sure what that proves besides that being a cashier isn't as easy as you might think. I assure you that pressbyrån accepts cash and you can buy tickets there to get to work. Also having a long subscription for public transport on the phone is a bad idea, because if you drop your phone you'll also lose your su…

Happy to hear of any restaurants that only take cash in Sweden tbh

Wasn't your claim that they won't take cash at all? Why the sudden shift?

Anyway it was a place i went in april, i'll have to look it up, i don't really remember.

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Post by ssl232 »

matsemann wrote: post #193
ssl232 wrote: post #175

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The greatest downside to online grocery delivery is that you can’t then do this.

I work for an online grocer, and I really do think it's not really an issue due to two things for us: * the amount of stock going through one fulfillment center instead of landing on shelves in smaller stores, means we never have old products laying around. The cucumber you get from us came in a few hours ago. The one in your store has been laying there for days and touched by many. 10 stores each need their own buff…

Some supermarkets in the UK (e.g. Waitrose) literally just pick items already out and on display in the local store to give to delivery customers. So you’re getting whatever is at the front of the shelf in your local store, which is the least fresh.

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

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Post by dijit »

guappa wrote: post #261
dijit wrote: post #260

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Happy to hear of any restaurants that only take cash in Sweden tbh

Wasn't your claim that they won't take cash at all? Why the sudden shift? Anyway it was a place i went in april, i'll have to look it up, i don't really remember.

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

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Post by jopsen »

3eb7988a1663 wrote: post #27

Does this just mean bags of rice/beans? 10kg of rice will store quite a while and provide many days of food.

The sensible thing would be to store more of existing non-persishables and then cycle through to other stores.

10kg bags of rice is not a common supermarket item in Denmark.

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Post by olau »

xquce wrote: post #169
TazeTSchnitzel wrote: post #55

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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…

You seen to have failed to understand both solutions and changes you mention... the technology stack of our digital post and the change of letter delivery (I don't blame you, many of my fellow Danes don't understand it either). But Eboks is not holding all digital post of all our citizens, it's one of at least 3 services who we can choose from to read our mail from the governmental organizations. It's a freemarket co…

Yeah, the only dumb thing about the digital mail is that they're not just using email with an official registry.

They could have started some kind of certification thing for email providers and even funded a couple of certified email providers much more effectively than the digital post monstrosity.

That would have been awesome and forward looking, and perhaps even helped ordinary people get better security for their personal emails.

Perhaps we'll get there some day.

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Post by sandworm101 »

chvid wrote: post #147
jamesblonde wrote: post #129

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

Denmark is in a crazy situation where what we saw as a key trusted partner (the US) all of sudden is extremely hostile towards us due its re-ignited territorial ambitions in Greenland. In public discourse this is being met with riducule and disbelief but I believe behind the scenes in government it is being taken quite serious. And obviously having our payment infrastrcture in the hands of an adversarial nation is un…

>> Denmark is in a crazy situation where what we saw as a key trusted partner (the US) all of sudden is extremely hostile towards us due its re-ignited territorial ambitions

Canada will welcome you at thier clubhouse. Friends are enemies and enemies friends. And Putin is all smiles. (Let us not kid ourselves about who wants disharmony amongst arctic nations.)

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Post by impossiblefork »

mytailorisrich wrote: post #165
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 risk level for a land war across Western Europe is probably the lowest it has ever been. The balance of power is tilted against Russia much more than during the Cold War. That threat does not stand the most basic scrutiny. Russia couldn't reach Western Europe if they tried. Claims that it is the worst since WWII conveniently ignore the Cold War and even the 90s. Western Europe is better off now. It is incredible…

Yes, we are much stronger than they, but once we decide to actually have a war with them some difficulties will arise. They do have some useful weapons which will have effects on us, so we'll have to be ready so that disruption is not excessive.

My view has been that we should be going in, bombing the Russian positions in Ukraine with stand-off weapons, bombing war-relevant infrastructure in Russia and going in where they don't have forces to oppose us-- seizing ships at sea. I'd like to see the Russian Baltic fleet sunk. It'd like to see parts of the Russian Northern Fleet sunk.

I'd also like to see a surrender of Kaliningrad forced by means of blockade.

If we want to do things like this we have prepare a bit.

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Post by walthamstow »

guappa wrote: post #216
walthamstow wrote: post #154

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They will in small countries with high trust and community, near to Russia and currently or formerly having national service. In fat, lazy, individualist countries like the UK and US? No way.

Source for this obviously false statement?

Did the guy above source their made-up number?

For the positive, see Finland, which is working hard to be a very well-prepared nation. Heavy buy-in from all across the populace. Exactly the kind of nation I was talking about - their survival depends on it. Poland, Sweden, Denmark all doing similar.

For the negative, see UK and US during COVID. The individualism that has underpinned society since Thatcher/Reagan as made us less likely be prepared, less likely to look out for our neighbour. Both are isolated by water, so we're naturally less bothered about invasion.

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Post by guappa »

walthamstow wrote: post #268
guappa wrote: post #216

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Source for this obviously false statement?

Did the guy above source their made-up number? For the positive, see Finland, which is working hard to be a very well-prepared nation. Heavy buy-in from all across the populace. Exactly the kind of nation I was talking about - their survival depends on it. Poland, Sweden, Denmark all doing similar. For the negative, see UK and US during COVID. The individualism that has underpinned society since Thatcher/Reagan as ma…

I live in sweden and I can tell you that over here it's all idle talk, nothing and nobody is prepared for anything at all.

And the only ones who do buy-in are gun lovers and preppers, which are not a major demographic.

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Post by guappa »

dijit wrote: post #263
guappa wrote: post #261

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Wasn't your claim that they won't take cash at all? Why the sudden shift? Anyway it was a place i went in april, i'll have to look it up, i don't really remember.

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