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Originally Posted by solleks
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Don't worry the store will order more. Uhh
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Well they're all ordering more. Every drugstore and supermarket and box store is going hey we need more hand sanitizer. So like when I was little, before Toyota came out with Just In Time inventory, stores had big backrooms and there were local warehouses and stores could restock in case of sudden demand, at least for a while. There was a buffer because retailers ordered in big lots and stuff sat in warehouses.
But JIT spread to the retail sector with what all the computers and all. An algorithm predicts exactly how much product is needed adjusted for seasonal variances and the factory gets an order for this much product and it lets its suppliers know and they start supplying and everything is smooth and efficient as long as demand is predictable and the suppliers are reliable.
The biggest demand for hand sanitizer happens around winter anyway I'm guessing. So they're producing the max hand sanitizer right now, it's not like they can crank it up too much more without retooling.
Purell hand sanitizer is made in the USA which is awesome. But does that mean they make their own bottles or fill Chinese bottles with the local goop and slap the label on and call it made? Hows that bottle ship, is it coming? I mean I'll buy it in a paper bag like I used to buy sauerkraut so I could snack on the way to grade school but that was a completely different plague.