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To: John Mansfield who wrote (2810)	11/15/1998 4:08:00 PM
From: John Mansfield	Respond to of 9818

'until now we are into the second week of April, 1999.' '7. Picking Up Your Order At Walton Feed: For a while this was a solution to long shipping delays. About the middle of June the number of people requesting a local pickup dramatically increased. To prevent a bottleneck, we started filling slots, only permitting about 10,000 lb. a day to be picked up locally. These slots have quickly filled up until now we are into the second week of April, 1999.' ... 11. What we are doing about the backlog. We started taking orders for Y2K in March of 1997. The pace has slowly increased from that time. Each new month has brought a new increase in orders. The food storage industry here in the U.S. has never been as busy as it is now. Talking with many people in the industry, everyone is swamped over this Y2K thing, adding production lines and work shifts. This includes the companies that pack the traditional food storage items such as ourselves, the freeze-dry companies, and the MRE companies. Here at Walton Feed we have more than doubled our personnel, more than doubled our floor space, and have added new packing lines. Our output has increased several times but it hasn't been enough take care of the increased demand for the orders that are coming in. I'm often told, "Well, hire more people, build even more buildings." We have been at least a little cautious about how much expanding we do as we know that in 15 months from now this boom cycle in the food storage business will turn into a real bust. We are going to survive Y2K and are being as wise as we can with our long term planning. We are presently driving our facility as fast as it can go. Hiring more people wouldn't make it run any faster. We are also in the process of building a new, large building and add two more canning lines and another bucket line. But it will take some time to turn this into reality. When this happens we figure we will have doubled production yet again. ... waltonfeed.com

To: John Mansfield who wrote (2810)	11/15/1998 4:18:00 PM
From: John Mansfield	Respond to of 9818

'A couple of months ago I met a very interesting gentleman via the telephone who is on the President's committee for dealing with disasters. He goes into areas around the country after earthquakes, hurricanes, tornadoes, etc. have struck. As we were talking, he said that the coverage you see on TV doesn't reflect many of the realities of the situation. One of the specific things he mentioned was water typically going sold for $5 a gallon during the aftermath. Any of us who've thought much about emergency preparedness realize that one of the most crucial items to store is water. The "how-to's" of water storage is one of the questions I'm asked most often. ... waltonfeed.com

To: John Mansfield who wrote (2810)	11/16/1998 8:20:00 AM
From: Ken Salaets	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 9818

Saw a TV commercial this weekend by a wide-screen television manufacture. It shows a family watching the tube on 12-31-1999. The New York apple is making its way down the poll over Times Square. When it hits midnight, the power goes out, but the father has made contingency plans. He cranks up a generator and the wide-screen TV comes back on, showing the wild celebration in New York. The family then begin eating food out of cans! It was a very creative way to spread the word. Also saw the Y2K story in another Sunday comic strip. Ken