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Technology Stocks : Discuss Year 2000 Issues
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To: John Mansfield who wrote (2433)8/21/1998 6:10:00 AM
From: John Mansfield  Read Replies (1) of 9818
 
'Delivery of food

Our primary concern involves deliveries, both to the neighborhood
grocery store, and to the fast-food outlets that some citizens have come
to depend upon [3] . Fresh food, by its very nature, has to be
replenished and re-stocked on a frequent basis. Many other forms of
food (including the hamburger patties at your favorite junk-food
emporium) are frozen, and thus could presumably be stockpiled to
provide ongoing supplies of food for months or years. But both the
hamburger outlets and the grocery stores operate on razor-thin profit
margins, which requires keeping low inventories and using a
"just-in-time" (JIT) delivery mechanism to restock on a daily or weekly
basis.
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