• dubyakay@lemmy.ca
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    19 hours ago

    Can you elaborate on this? Just In Time delivery? Is this a US thing?

    Edit: okay, I looked it up and I understand it now. The ripple effect already happened though when big box stores told Trump to fuck off with the tariffs, because their shelves are empty.

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      19 hours ago

      Yeah, put super simply:

      Minimize needed actual storage space and time a thing spends in storage… by relying on very frequent and consistent logistics.

      Its very efficient in the sense of minimizing operating costs…

      But it is also extremely fragile, a minor perturbation can fuck shit up for weeks or months.

      … And we are getting… well basically the most major disruption in the history of JIT as a logistics paradigm.

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        18 hours ago

        Really thought we would have learned that JIT is a horrible strategy after covid… That was only a few years ago…

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          11 hours ago

          America follows Seinfeld rules:

          No hugging.

          No learning.

          … Larry David is even writing poignant political satire pieces just right in the New York Times now!

          There was an episode of Comedians in Cars like a decade ago now, Jerry just muses something like… God, is NYC just gonna be nothing but corporate coffee shops and banks?

          Yes. Yep. That is what happened.