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heebeegeetee said:
CK's post is utterly ridiculous. "the logistics industry has dug itself a massive hole it can't get out of". What the hell is that all about?
The UK is consumer driven . It is the only country in Europe I believe, that shops all day on Sundays. Germany doesn't even shop all day every Saturday.
If we want someone to blame then blame the supermarkets and on-line retailers like ebay and Amazon, but in any case you cannot force people to buy.
Therefore the consumers are to blame as if they don't create the demand the retailers will not supply?The UK is consumer driven . It is the only country in Europe I believe, that shops all day on Sundays. Germany doesn't even shop all day every Saturday.
If we want someone to blame then blame the supermarkets and on-line retailers like ebay and Amazon, but in any case you cannot force people to buy.
heebeegeetee said:
jmorgan said:
Crossflow Kid said:
If you want a really good laugh get over to Commercial Berk and try offering that.
The Yorkie Bar Kids just won't accept the logistics industry has dug itself a massive hole it can't get out of by providing a service that everyone now regards as "essential" when on the whole it just isn't.
35 different types of bread in my local Sainsburys. I mean.....wow. Like I need that.
"Oh look....no white bread. Brown bread today then"
Verner von Braun needn't be consulted.
But the problem is the system will say it's a free market. You cut back on the bread and sell white or brown, sliced, with a sell by of tomorrow and your competitor will start to sell bread that runs out in three days time. Then they will sell two types of white and three of brown and a free croissant. The shopper is the fickle agent provocateur here. Shoppers are blasted by adverts and the need to buy a product and in this day and age they want it yesterday. They are also stupid as a group.The Yorkie Bar Kids just won't accept the logistics industry has dug itself a massive hole it can't get out of by providing a service that everyone now regards as "essential" when on the whole it just isn't.
35 different types of bread in my local Sainsburys. I mean.....wow. Like I need that.
"Oh look....no white bread. Brown bread today then"
Verner von Braun needn't be consulted.
So the lorries roll. Buy something on Amazon? It is on the back of a lorry. And they will not send that one single item on its own special lorry to the depot to be stored until you pick it. And they want you to pick it so better get a good few items in so they can offer a silly low price to tempt you. You have the choice to buy more expensive but then we are going to go for the lower priced item. In the main. Back to the shopper.
The UK is consumer driven. It is the only country in Europe I believe, that shops all day on Sundays. Germany doesn't even shop all day every Saturday.
Neither side seems to want to break the cycle.
Crossflow Kid said:
The hole in question is the situation whereby the whole consumer/retail/logs supply chain has relentlessly told people they can have their order delivered yesterday and now it can't keep up except by having vehicles on the go 24/7. And the more that happens, the more people want "stuff" delivered at any time.
Neither side seems to want to break the cycle.
A lot of it is driven by the "just in time" process too - nobody holds a proper stock of anything any more, so the roads are being used as warehousing.Neither side seems to want to break the cycle.
marshalla said:
Crossflow Kid said:
The hole in question is the situation whereby the whole consumer/retail/logs supply chain has relentlessly told people they can have their order delivered yesterday and now it can't keep up except by having vehicles on the go 24/7. And the more that happens, the more people want "stuff" delivered at any time.
Neither side seems to want to break the cycle.
A lot of it is driven by the "just in time" process too - nobody holds a proper stock of anything any more, so the roads are being used as warehousing.Neither side seems to want to break the cycle.
Car fixing? Part out of stock but it will be here tomorrow.
AlexRS2782 said:
Collectingbrass said:
This woman with the burst tyre and the instant recovery truck has to be a set up surely?
The first thing that popped into my mind as well, was that seemed a bit staged. How handy that on the day she has the camera in her car and is complaining about the lack of a hard shoulder, the dangers, etc, and then all of a sudden she breaks down?I notice that when she first noticed the problem she kept driving and went past the coned area where there were no roadworks, which she could have nipped into safely, and then decided to stop the car next to the metal barrier instead. At which point she starts panicking, then starts panicking the child, makes comments about a mad woman behind her nearly hitting her, but then decides to start driving again, where lo & behold the exit slip road for the junction was.
Can't believe she stopped. Fecking liability to herself and others. Hazards on, nurse it to a safe location FFS.
The lorry with the flat tyre on its trailer at the beginning wasn't staged and that was stuck in a live running lane of the managed section. It had to sit there with a forlorn Highways Agency guy standing next to it well into the night because it couldn't be recovered. Had it been on a hard shoulder the motorway could have run more smoothly and safely while it was there and it could have been taken away a lot sooner. There are more logical and long term alternatives to the smart motorway system that will be safer and overall better for the environment. They just wouldn't always be politically correct as it would involve motorway widening and new roads being built. Widening the motorway could result in those two moaning guys having compulsory purchase orders on their houses which would be good or bad for them depending on the prices they were given.
As for the bread thing, I used to work in M&S. There were millions of indistinguishable varieties of bread, ham, cheese and so on and people would moan long and loud if we didn't have the very kind they wanted.
As for the bread thing, I used to work in M&S. There were millions of indistinguishable varieties of bread, ham, cheese and so on and people would moan long and loud if we didn't have the very kind they wanted.
Collectingbrass said:
This woman with the burst tyre and the instant recovery truck has to be a set up surely?
Not really, roadworks in the area, you could tell by the metal safety barrier, so there's probably free recovery patrolling that stretch and was in the right place at the right time. 
Crossflow Kid said:
The hole in question is the situation whereby the whole consumer/retail/logs supply chain has relentlessly told people they can have their order delivered yesterday and now it can't keep up except by having vehicles on the go 24/7. And the more that happens, the more people want "stuff" delivered at any time.
Neither side seems to want to break the cycle.
Allow 28 days for delivery? Neither side seems to want to break the cycle.
Expectations are now next day delivery. If amazon stopped doing next day they would be out of business pretty fast as others would offer it.
I've even had deliveries turn up on a Sunday recently.
Rundown (pardon the pun) of some of the people in it and their backgrounds, ie few Ex military, drivers and others.
http://www.highways.gov.uk/about-us/the-motorway/
Also a heads up on what's on the next 2 weeks.
http://www.highways.gov.uk/about-us/the-motorway/
Also a heads up on what's on the next 2 weeks.
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