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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 chiph »

scotty79 wrote: post #365
chiph wrote: post #312

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Most of the cost of currency is up-front in it's production and initial distribution. The cost of handling it is also mostly up front (purchasing a wallet to hold it, buying a cash register with a drawer for the bills and coins). The transactional costs are things like taking it to the bank for depositing. But if you have cash to deposit - your business is probably doing things right and this is negligible.

> The transactional costs are things like taking it to the bank for depositing. But if you have cash to deposit - your business is probably doing things right and this is negligible. It's not neglible to the point that some sellers where it's legal don't take cash because credit cars fees there cost less than cash handling.

For them, the risk of keeping cash on the premises is probably paramount. Of robbery, employee theft, of employees not being able to make change correctly (or getting taken advantage of by a quick-change artist).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLDgLOga6oE

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Post by anonym29 »

anabab wrote: post #178
XorNot wrote: post #98

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Tell me, what weight in gold do I exchange for a loaf of bread? Do you have a way to measure and subdivide it to hand? Do you trust the scales being lent to execute this?

Check "valcambi combibar". Its a gold plate pre-divided into 1g pieces you can break away (like a chocolate bar). 1g is ~100 of money today, which would be enough for a weekly supply of groceries for a person in HCOL areas.

Additionally, one need not use gold; silver is easier to subdivide into manageable units for even smaller monetary values.

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Post by jon-wood »

walthamstow wrote: post #273
jon-wood wrote: post #240

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I can only speak for myself here but I don't bother rummaging around for longer expiries because generally I'm buying food that I'm going to eat within the next 2-3 days. It just doesn't make any difference to me.

Even if you're eating it tonight surely you want the freshest item? Most foods deteriorate after harvest.

Meh, most things I’m never going to tell the difference in a few days freshness. We’re very good at preserving things with packaging now, and my cooking skill is going to have a much larger impact than the ingredients being marginally fresher.

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Post by riffraff »

TiredOfLife wrote: post #339
riffraff wrote: post #151

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All out war shocked the shit out of the 20 somethings in Ukraine too, many fled, and yet Russia has not made significant advances in the following three years. There's no plausible world in which Russia has the strength to take on the rest of Europe, in, say, the next ten years. (Let's assume nukes are out of the question)

Rest - maybe not. But russia currently holds territory about the size of the 3 baltic states. And Ukraine before 2022 had about 10 times larger army than those 3 countries combined.

yes, but we're talking of waging war against actual NATO and the EU, not a country which was vaguely friendly towards the west.

No european country has actually put a lot of effort into supporting Ukraine, but if an actual EU+NATO member was attacked things would be different. Even without the US.

It's not accidental that Russia invaded Ukraine and Georgia but not the baltic states.

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Post by nandomrumber »

guappa wrote: post #248
nandomrumber wrote: post #246

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What does gender have to do with this conversation?

Unfortunately there is no term for "stop explaining my own country to me", but there are similarities with that other situation so… a rhetorical figure? Heard of those?

patronizing

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Post by rekoil »

willvarfar wrote: post #127
throwawayqqq11 wrote: post #92

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> 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?

Isn't selling older products first first-in-first-out (FIFO) instead of first-in-last-out (FILO)?

I also reacted to this and came to the same conclusion as you.

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Post by eru »

dcow wrote: post #68
chrisphilip wrote: post #22

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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.

Alas, I don't think the law sees it that way.

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Post by eru »

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 it's fine, if it's always expensive, not just in an emergency.

(Yes, the US has silly laws there, too.)

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Post by dcow »

eru wrote: post #377
dcow wrote: post #68

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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.

Alas, I don't think the law sees it that way.

Are you sure? Under a unified definition Uber’s surge pricing is an example of price gouging that hasn’t been legally addressed because it’s in response to supply-side shortage not demand-side need, allegedly anyway.

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Post by xp84 »

4ggr0 wrote: post #350
xp84 wrote: post #349

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This is called cowardice and nihilism. If we all run to "safety" when evil comes, evil will happily take over everything.

i'll gladly live as a nihilist coward in safety. will leave the optimistic and heroic option of getting blown up by a drone on a muddy field, slowly choking on your own blood and leaving behind your closest ones to people who aren't such cowards like myself. thanks for your service.

lol. Enjoy your “safety” - it’ll be short-lived
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