The logistics of small-town grocery stores are even funnier, as one person can constitute the entire demand for a product. My brother is most of his small town’s demand for quarts of vanilla yogurt

As someone who works in retail, my only response to your description of how pallets are organised and built is this: I freaking wish.

As a Grocery store shelf stocker, I can confirm what everyone in the comments is saying about the pallets not being stacked in any organized fashion, but I can also speak on the slow moving items point. It seems every time we stop carrying an item because it doesn't sell well, a handful of people will start complaining to us (because we, as shelf stockers, control what the store sells) that it was their FAVORITE brand and they can't get it at the other stores in our area. There was this 1 brand of almond butter that wasn't even shelf stable so it had to be refrigerated, I was rotating it one day and realized that all of it had expired a few days prior. So I pulled them from the shelf and my boss looked up their sales in our system. WE HAD SOLD EXACTLY 1 JAR IN THE LAST YEAR! We discontinued it, and you know what, we still had SEVERAL people come in complaining to us that we stopped carrying it, FOR WEEKS! WE ONLY SOLD 1 JAR IN AN ENTIRE YEAR, and people, that didn't even buy the product, were mad at us!?

4:47 "More than one way products can leave a store." At an ethnic grocery store, I once saw fertilized chicken eggs starting to hatch.

Honestly variety is what i learn from this man, he goes from building an Airline to Vaccine Distribution Logistics to Grocery Stores

As a former Walmart shelf stocker I would like to point out that Walmart does not organize pallets based on a products location in the Aisle.

You can barely imagine the old days before computers and bar codes, where the local grocer had to do inventory and logistics by hand. He had to either mentally or pencil and paper, keep track of every item in the whole store. What an unbelievable job that must have been. Everything had to be priced by hand, too. The checkout girls and women were masters of memory and logistical intelligence. They pretty much had to be.

I use to work at Walmart and people would always complain about the shelf’s being empty and one thing people don’t realize is how much stuff is actually being bought. We could over stock the whole meat section Saturday morning and by 4pm it’s all gone and there’s only so much we could actually fit in the store. Same for milk and water and eggs. It’s not that we are doing a terrible job keep the selves stocked. It’s that there’s only so much we could fit in the store each day

We need to know the logistics of creating a logistics video, like from getting the video idea to all the hardware to storing it and finally releasing it online

Anyone that’s ever unpacked a grocery pallet KNOWS that they are NOT organize in anyway that’s helpful 🤣

As a gas station owner this logistics system becomes more and more in depth as we have the ability to micromanage products. I know the names of many of my customers so it’s fun making sure I have each of their products. Tammy, Joe, Tom, Erica, they all have products that I carry just for them. Unfortunately it’s easier for us to be out of stock of items because we don’t carry a large amount of any one item in stock. Deliveries from each vendor are traditionally once a week. Sometimes a customer is going on vacation or something they inform us they need extra of an item we can get it in for them so they have enough to last them. The one thing we have trouble with are not the slow sellers but the “no sellers” items that do not move, cannot be returned or even discounted to be sold. These items clog up precious shelf space and can make our store get cluttered quickly. We carry everything at our gas station a small neighborhood could need; gas, diesel, e85, cigarettes, cigars, CBD, lottery, medicine, health & beauty products, chargers and phone accessories, propane, automative fluids/oils/accessories, firewood, pool chlorine, clothing items, ice cream, fishing bait, ice, coffee & tea, hundreds of snacks & beverages, candy, beer, wine and liquor, grocery items like condiments, toiletries, canned goods, pet food, the list goes on and on. It’s like a mini grocery store and it’s amazing how much stuff fits into a small space, we have roughly $150k-$200k in retail inventory.

Once I see “the logistics” I come running 🏃‍♂️

Sam is kind of person who take "Amateurs study tactics, while professionals study logistics" to a whole new level.

In Australian ALDI stores they don't keep any niche brands. They just keep highly profitable staples at great prices and position all their stores adjacent to one of the big two grocery brands. So as a consumer you can save money on the basics, while still getting the niche things next door, and ALDI can be hyper-efficient by only stocking highly profitable fast-moving items. This leaves the big grocery stores "holding the bag" as the saying goes, selling more unprofitable niche products relative to the efficient staple items.

One of the nicest things about shopping in NYC is that grocers aren’t competing with Walmarts or (many) enormous supermarkets, so it’s normal for things to go out of stock. Which means a lot less waste. And nobody dies if blueberries are out one day.

As someone who works in retail, I wish that my distribution center would stack things in the 'most efficient manner' on palettes. Usually its just completely random, if not dangerous. Frequently they'll put light stuff on the bottom and heavy stuff on top so that it falls and almost hits someone. Also there are frequently falls while on the truck so the delivery driver will have to go back and try to figure out what stuff was ours vs stuff for another store. We damage out a least one item, usually way more, every single week (we have weekly deliveries) because it was stacked poorly.

The most annoying thing about supermarkets: Supermarket management meeting: - Lets build a huge supermarket! With lots of food and stuff. And 15 checkout counters. - Yes! And lets keep only 2 of them open.

I am proudly glad to say, I just started driving for a grocery store. The distribution system is astonishing, we are warehouse (well, our one warehouse is actually six) based, and we’re sent out to stores in a three state area, and may go to manufacturers, Kraft and Quaker are our usuals, to pick up. I say proud because in addition to working (well, dedicated contracted) for a company that I already patronized and respected, I get to deliver the most important resource up there with air (well I deliver some of that too 😁) to random people….and me….I shop there too.

I'm relatively young but I remember when the produce section was seasonal-- March would roll around and it was such a treat to smell & see the fresh strawberries; Peaches, nectarines & apricots were only available for a few months and arrived at the store ripe, or a few days before; apples were always in stock, but just a couple varieties year-round (one red, one green)- only Fall brought a wide variety. I think of this most every time I'm at the store, but most people seem both oblivious to and completely expecting of it. It boggles the mind to try and comprehend the logistics- not to mentionmany hours, fuel, etc., just so we can have an ear of corn in Nevada in January.

When he talked about people expecting things to always be there all year round, I felt that. As a produce stocker, you have no idea how often people are shocked if I say we are out of something. And then they ask when we will get it next and I try to explain to them how not everything is always in season and if it is, it might take a while to travel or that I do not control orders and that we get freight everyday, we just don't know what it will be until we unwrap the pallets. They always just looked surprised and I just want to facepalm.

As a former employee of kings soopers I can confirm that this is all true. The only part you’re missing is the utterly chaotic mood during rush hour

I work in a distribution centre. There are 2 things to understand about how pallets are organised, because it's not by their location on the shelves at the store. 1. They're organised by weight. The heavy stuff goes on the bottom, the light stuff goes on the top. This makes the pallet more stable. Putting the heavy things on top may also crush some of the lighter things, for example you would not put lots of pasta sauce on top of crisps (chips for you Americans). The heavier things will therefore be located at the front of the picking aisle, and it's a 1 way system. 2. By shape/size. There are certain patterns to how products will fit together. It makes your job much harder and slower if you try to play a game of tetris, much easier and faster if you already know where everything is going. Typically, you will spilt the pallet into zones (⅓, ⅛, etc) and after enough time you'll be familiar with all the products enough to know in which of these zones they fit. This is the part that takes longest for a picker to learn, so many of the newer pickers mess this up and create weird looking pallets. I also used to work in a supermarket, and we used to change the location of our stock fairly frequently, probably more than you'd expect. On night shift, we would change product locations (mostly either end of aisle or season products), do stock counts and make sure the store is in a clean and acceptable state in addition to our main responsibility of stocking products. The spots for the products change enough to where the distribution centre can't really be expected to update to product placement on the pallets to that degree. I can't speak for the automated distribution centres, since I don't have experience there. It's possible that optimising the placement is a feature of automation, but it's definitely not a feature of manual distribution centres. It would create way too much chaos for us.

The last store I worked at had a $10,000 loss (wholesale cost) for the quarter on the bulk nut isle alone. People will get $15-30 bags of things, walk around snacking on them, decide they don't want them after they've filled up on them and throw the bag on the shelf somewhere. That bag and whatever is inside is now garbage. Honestly, I think if people think it's ok to do that, then stores should think it's ok to put the content of the bags back into the bins they originally came from. It kills me that some things are grown for months, shipped half way around the world, just for greedy a-holes to think it's ok to get a free snack and then are absolutely wasteful about it. If you think only a couple people a day do it, guess again. Night crews can find dozens of bags hidden around stores when they're working. $10,000 a quarter. $40,000 a year. The store lost more than I made yearly because of self entitled twats stuffing their fat fucking faces. And again, that was wholesale loss. The loss for from the profits could've went into keeping the stores in good condition, paying employees better, and overall, just doing more for their communities. Besides... Didn't your momma ever tell you to pay for something before eating it?

As someone who worked in retail as a youngster I always loved how people think the "back" is some magic portal where that single item you want (amongst millions) is hiding in the "back". Yeah lady we're keeping the gooshu blended yogurt with teatree oil hiding, lemme grab it. Not how this works lol.

It’s only when i speak with old relatives who immigrated to America that I realized how strange it was that I expected fruit from 10x different countries to be readily supplied, sweet, organic and cheap regardless of the season, year round and open 24/7. Truly a modern marvel.

This reminds me of the Calvin & Hobbes comic about Calvin's dad freaking out about all the different choices of peanut butter

Slow moving inventory is definitely important to customer retention. A grocer on the other side of town was the only place I could find my favorite muffins, so I shopped there quite often. Since they stopped stocking those muffins, I haven't stepped inside their store since. I just go to a competitor that is closer to my house.

I was a little surprised when your introduction claimed that such supermarkets were everywhere world-wide. My wife is from China, and one of the essays she wrote for a pre-college English Writing class (a "compare and contrast" essay) was the Western Supermarket vs the Asian Wet Market. She was completely unfamiliar with the supermarket and marveled at the huge number of products, and showed an outsider's perspective of how novel some of its features are. When I visited China in 2007, the only "grocery store" I saw was a small boutique-style store, much smaller than a supermarket. I asked her about it just now, and she said that supermarkets only started to appear in China around the year 2000. So I guess they are everywhere _now_ , but it's very recent. Even so, they still co-exist with traditional street markets. Most of the population there _is_ familiar with shopping in traditional markets. Note that they are different from the neighborhood grocery store you described: They were _huge_ expansive sprawling districts where you would walk for miles and miles seeing nothing but small stalls and tiny storefronts. They have become a lot smaller, but still go on for many blocks.

Watching stuff like this reignites that child-like wonder of experiencing it for the first time all over again. Imagine the feeling of the people who walked into the first super store and realized they had almost anything you could want and it would almost always be in stock. That's the feeling I get when you really break down just how much is available and how stable availability is. We live in the future and most people don't even think about it.

I used to help run the backroom at a Kroger in Houston. This video is extremely accurate and actually taught me a few things about the way warehouses are run. One thing not mentioned (unless I just missed it) is the understaffing of not only warehouses but the overnight crews at the physical stores as well. Companies cut corners when they can to save money, and that's to be expected, but it increases the strain felt by the actual workers. So try and treat your store employees well, there's a lot of work we have to do behind the scenes that customers don't normally see and it can be incredibly strenuous.

More like the ILLUSION of choice. A large percentage of items in grocery stores are all owned by the same 10 companies, regardless of what "brand" is on the box, bag, or bottle

I used to work in beverage sales and one of the biggest things that mess up automatic stock is cashier laziness. A lot of brands have multiple same priced flavors and they will just scan one for all flavors and you end up with big variances in the system and now most major grocery stores use an automatic reorder that they just hand us when we arrive

As a truck driver that used to deliver meat/produce and frozen/dairy for a carrier that worked for Walmart, I'm super stoked that a video like this came out. Thank you WP

I used to work the night shift working at a large supermarket. The most stressful and physically demanding job I ever had. 4 deliveries every night, and they expect all the products neatly on the shelf before store opening.

I work as an order selector as a distribution center and I can say that we dont (or cant) build the pallets in a way that makes sense usually. We get told what to grab through our headset and we go up and down isles in order of where they are on the shelf at the distribution center. That means we build pallets in the fastest way possible to us and not really in a way thats best for the store. Its really just heavier things on the bottom and lighter things on top. On top of that, we need to build them fast because we are timed with very small leeway so the pallets often end up messy because we are running from slot to slot and jumping on and off our pallet jack while its moving. This is probably not the case for everyone but it should at least explain some of the issues people are having in the comments here.

"Extended cut" on Nebula. I bought Nebula and it was only an 18 minute video vs this already 17 minute video.

This is somehow a nostalgia trip. It like when we were younger we didn’t have the internet. So we had questions about how things operate. But it like we forgot to research this when the internet came around and Wendover Productions is reminding us

Where the hell does one find "Footage of frustrated man throws laptop in bath filled with flower petals"? Top notch content!

What always amazes me is that if you look around everything is produced by some company. Not that shocking, but remember that ugly lamp, that weird flower pot my grandma has, the offbrand tape I use all gets produced in a factory somewhere and has 100s of people involved in it's processing from raw resource to storefront.

I will say, the hardware compartment of the Lowe's I worked in (my department as well) literally lost 12 dollars every two weeks (people steal the one bolt they need) at the most. We knew where everything was, how many we had, and when we got new ones. Good thing about hardware, is that the parts don't expire, and are available year-round unlike citrus fruits.

This is such an interesting topic that we just never even give a second thought

All throughout this video, I kept thinking of the damn pallets. A lot of us probably overlooked the supermarket industry, but we're all overlooking the wooden pallet industry. I'm not sure if it's worth a video to you, but I definitely think you should check it out.

Fascinating stuff, thank you for putting this together - and at such high quality as well! Much appreciated.

I have a friend who was the refrigerated section manager at a local high volume Walmart. He said on a busy weekend they would sell 1,000 gallons of milk. Expand that across the country and think of the volume of milk that's required every week in the US. Just staggering! And that's just one product.

I used to be an assistant manager at…. One of Kroger’s competitors that used to operate in Canada. Listening to you go through something that has become so natural to me, Thank you. I’ve been having a crisis of confidence on my skills and having you recognize how truly complex retail is restored my faith in myself.

"Shrink" is what we call lost items. (Stolen, broken, etc.) Because your inventory shrinks roughly 10-15%

I just started to read "The Secret Life of Groceries: The Dark Miracle of the American Supermarket" by Benjamin Lorr which goes in depth on this topic and complements this video well. However, the book shows more of the dark side of these logistics to workers, truckers, and product makers that are trying to break-in to the industry.

WHOA 14:41 I worked at that Trader Joe’s!! Caught me off guard haha. Westport CT!

"they organize pallets..." L M A O no

Shelf stocker for a large grocery store chain in Canada here. My store does not sort products by aisle, in fact it doesn't even sort products by department but instead just sends pallets with products from all over the store which we then have to sort through to grab our products that we are suppose to stock.

The niche product thing reminded me about this couple that comes to the store I work at once...every two-ish months and just buys a shitload of seltzer water. I'm talking over a hundred bottles. They never get anything else, but they only get it from our store because we're the only one that has it in the flavors they like. I don't even blame them it's pretty good

From the conversations I've had with pallet stackers, the organisation of stock by aisle lasts abput as long as the training phase of their employment.

Sam, these “logistics” videos are your best work! They combine interesting complexity for niche content which no one else has. They are your “slow moving inventory!”

You make a relatively major error that, as someone relatively familiar with grocery store logistics, bothers me quite a bit. You excluded direct store delivery (DSD) from the logistics model you laid out. This is a critical mistake as it’s how a ton of products are delivered and shelved in stores nationwide. Major manufacturers like Pepsi, coke, nabisco, etc. have teams of salesmen and delivery drivers that ensure stores are supplied with products. The fact that you used nabisco as an example when discussing how products are delivered from manufacturers to distribution centers and then to stores is what made me decide to comment. Nabisco is a DSD vendor which means that the manufacturer delivers merchandise directly to the store, bypassing the grocer’s distribution center. I’ll explain the way this works (in most cases) using nabisco (mondelez) as an example: 1. Products are manufactured at Mondelez factories. 2. Products are shipped to regional Mondelez distribution centers. 3. Product is delivered to stores by Mondelez drivers and is then checked into store inventory management systems. 4. Mondelez sales and merchandising employees arrive at stores and stock product on store shelves. 5. Those same sales and merchandising employees use Mondelez inventory management software and sales projection software to order the next delivery. Depending on the product, companies who participate in store DSD programs will deliver and merchandise product anywhere from 2-5 times a week. Mission tortilla vendors, for instance, service most stores 2 times a week, while coke services most stores 5 times a week. Additionally, some companies employ sales, merchandising, and drivers as all separate positions, some combine them into just one position and some combine the sales and merchandising jobs into one position. Mission has one sales/driver/merchandiser do the whole job for each store while coke has a separate employee for each aspect of the job.

Well, Having worked for two of Canada's biggest grocery companies, I can tell you our country certainly hasn't (or hadn't as of a few yeas ago) got this sorted out quite so neatly. Every palette ever received at the stores where I worked was a hobjumble of product from any which aisle of the store. Never any organization I could determine.

As a store associate of a large retailer, this video was extremely well made. I have to planograms every 2 weeks, while we get truck drop-offs every week. We have to deal with unexpected recalls for name-brand products, as well as even store brand, which could take hours to get through. I find it quite interesting to think that our store brand packaging was made by another company or one that is owned by my company and the contents inside were from another company. Our pallets (or totes) are usually curated on a store-by-store basis, as our company individually decides what the store layout is. Everything in the totes are grouped together by aisle, making it easier to unload products onto shelves and such.

10:50 I work at a Grocery Store and I wish they did that, however most of the pallets are organized in different categories (etc. canned goods, paper products, condiments, household goods, pet product). It is really annoying because sometimes one pallet will have products that belong on multiple aisles sometimes on the other side of the store.

As a trucker that works out of a kroger DC. I appreciate the video that gives a glimpse into how product gets on the shelf. Few people have a true grasp of how much goes into them being able to buy what they want at the grocery store. I do have to say though grocery supply chains are some of the most unorganized, chaotic messes that exist in logistics. Grocery stores especially larger ones like kroger operate heavily in a just in time delivery system. Part of that is due to the perishable nature of alot of the products but also because very few stores have the space to store alot of backstock. The DC I work out of isn't heavily automated like the king sooper DC. Pallet building is done by order selectors and products are organized by how easy the cases fit together to build steady pallets not by if the products are in the same aisle. For example you will see a pallet with cases of Hawaiian punch and laundry detergent on the same pallet because of the weight and shape of the cases fit best together even though those products would be on opposite sides of the store.

When I worked as a shelf stocker at Giant Food, we had to manually update the inventory counts for each product as we put it on the shelf. I’d scan each product in the shipment and count how many units are physically on the shelf plus how many I’m adding, then update the count in the fancy scanner. That way everything eventually gets updated over time and the store can calculate what’s getting lost or stolen.

With so many UKpostsrs based in New York, LA or abroad, it's both refreshing and disconcerting to consistently have content customized to the Roaring Fork Valley.

12:00 its like the one meme where a local store asked a family to tell them when the oldest son went away to college so they could adjust their chocolate milk orders because he consumed more than half of it sold

As someone who grew up in Glenwood CO, I got very excited when our neighborhood store was showcased!! Even just seeing that picture brought me back. Mom would still go to the nearest Costco though

Really changed my perspective on something as "everyday" as grocery stores. There's an amazement and appreciation in the back of my mind every time I go to one now.

This was a really cool video. One thing to note is that inventory management systems aren’t, and can’t be, relied on extremely heavily. I’ve been a vendor for years now and depending on the company and division, you get vendors that represent certain brands. We basically act as a manual inventory specialist for our specific brand we represent. Normally we know in advance what products of ours will be on sale or what seasonal products will be coming out and how they will sale and we let the department manager know to up the order count so their shelves stay filled. We also have resources that managers sometimes don’t with knowing /why/ a product is out of stock and when it would be back in stock, as well as manually changing the re order count based on demand because department managers are usually too busy to be able to handle the small things like that. It’s a crazy and well oiled machine

Sam: The only person that could make me watch a video about grocery stores

"Avocados from Mexico" I like what you did there hehe

Totally cutting over to Nebula to see the extended version. I finally got a subscription for Nebula/Curiosity stream bundle! Seriously amazing content!

Just happened to be curious about logistics in general so I searched it up and found this video. Super duper informative! Thank you for making this vid, great quality and presentation, very helpful and really appreciate it.

I want to see a video on the logistics of Lidl’s middle aisle. You can find all kinds of random products there.

"Inventory" is done once a year at big stores. Counting on hands, as walmart says, is done regularly.

The internet takes care of a lot of niche products these days. A couple of examples for me (UK)- tonka beans and masa harina. My shop is entirely driven by niche products- Waitrose for aged beef, Aldi for coffee, Tesco for Clogwyn Gold ( bottle conditioned beer), Coop for bread, independents for Maris Piper potatoes which actually crisp ( supermarkets don’t), fish monger for fish etc

This is just a more in depth and more interesting “How it’s Made”... and I love it.

Wendover Productions in 2040: Years ago, we used to go to the supermarket, push a real shopping cart made of steel..........

Holy shit 2:39 that's my hometown's city market. I grew up in Glenwood Springs Colorado

Thank you for making this video, I appreciate the good in depth content!

I grew up in the USA - taking grocery stores for granted. After traveling to different countries & watching videos like this - i am amazing by American grocery stores and will not ever take them for granted!!! Thank you for this episode!!!!!!!

I can never get enough of this stuff. How you can find anything interesting in so many “boring” subjects is astounding. Keep up the outstanding work.

I've always been fascinated about the idea of supermarkets, getting things of everytime from every corner of the world under one roof, and your video just exemplifies that brilliance of logistical and supply chain management.

What I've found interesting in the last 2 years is seeing where the system develops cracks. For example, from what I've heard there isn't a shortage of what makes cat food, but it's been harder for them to get the materials for cans. Recently as well I've noticed it was hard to get pasta sauce for a while, but now it's back except 90% of them have gone back to glass jars instead of plastic. Not to mention for most of the last 2 years it's been difficult to impossible for me to reliably find one of my personal comfort foods, Spaghetti-Os or canned Spaghetti, I heard this one was because of problems in the supply chain for semolina wheat. It's frustrating as a shopper because I know it's skewing the numbers the grocery store puts out, which mean they may eventually stop carrying it altogether since they don't know I want a thing they haven't had in stock.

Well run distribution centers and stores that communicate with them have pallets that correspond with where items are in the store. But I can tell you for my store in a small Wisconsin town. That is no longer the case. Usually things were grouped by 2/3 isles per pallet. Now it can be upwards of like 6-8 isles per pallet. It takes so much longer to break them down then it used to.

Wendover: "The Logistics of-" Me: **clicks faster than the speed of light**

Now I am really wishing there was a "Grocery Store Tycoon" game.

Interesting to watch the modern distribution centre process. I worked at a grocery distribution centre back in the early 1990s for a time when it was all manual (and very exhausting!)

Wendover is from the Midwest. He said “Kroger’s” instead of “Kroger.”

Wendover: Grocery stores logistics Me: planes are involved for sure, let's see how he made it this time

I would love a logistics of packaging, I used to work on a. Cardboard box factory and the supply change was fascinating because everyone buys boxes with a huge variety of standards

Thank you@Wendover Productions for this informative video. Much appreciated.

This was a very interesting video. It’d be cool to see a video regarding the psychology behind the layout of super markets

Fascinating. I work in grocery retail in England and this was really interesting and accurate. A late harvest of something in Europe and vegetables are flown in from USA, Australia or Uganda. I started in a grocery store in the 1960s, customers would give you a written list of what they wanted and you went into the stockroom to find everything. Now, even in a small corner store, very little is in the stockroom, everything has to be out on the shopfloor

The animation quality in this episode is so high, fabulous job!

I've experienced almost all of the stages of grocery stores that you mentioned. As someone from a rural part of India, I was truly awestruck when I moved to a big city for college. You don't have to go to 10 different stores to get all the stuff you need (unless you want to, some specialty places have the best shit). Before that, whenever I needed something "too fancy" for my small village, Amazon and Flipkart were my only friends (fortunately they were there by the time I was a teenager). Having moved to US now (again for studies), it's good to see that even small towns enjoy at least some of the facilities.

I came across your channel today. I live in the Glenwood Springs, CO area. There are so many references to the area in your videos. I love it!

Things that aren't always true (From someone who works at a grocery store) -Distribution centers are often licensed out to 3rd parties like C&S -Pallets definitely aren't organized by where things are in the aisle -In fact, a lot of the time we break up pallets before bringing them out of the back room -Not all stores stock at night Things that you missed that I would have liked to see mentioned: -There are some types of products, like drinks, bread, coffee, and snacks (Including Oreos), that are not stocked by store employees. They are stocked directly by people hired by the manufacturer. -Getting rid of expired things is a chore just by itself, and there are ways that has been made easier/automated

Huh, never thought I’d see the City Market I get lunch from everyday on a UKposts video. Much less a Wendover productions video.

I work at Target. The way that we handle certain products is a little different. We do have the automated system that you are talking about. It keeps track of inventory through sales and we also take in account for damages/expires. Nabisco, Coke, Pepsi, Frito Lay and some other vendors handle their own product. They make their own orders, they handle their own inventory. They have their own delivery trucks, they have their own factories and what not. Hope this helps! Love the videos Edit: spelling/grammar

I hate too much choice on shelves. Thats why I buy all food online on Amazon. Then i can repeat my order, saves time and hassle. I must admit however that I tend to buy where my favourite chocolate bars are, so there is some truth in what you said.

I live in Mexico and, while I understood his point (of course), I did have to laugh at peanut butter as an example of global logistics. The grocery stores I go to only have one brand and frequently only crema de cacahuate cremosa (creamy peanut butter). No brand competition. No organic. No different sized of chunks. No hay nada! 😂

That part about keeping niche slow moving products to keep shoppers, I never realized it until now but that is absolutely true. I keep a mental note of which supermarkets I can get certain items and that determines where I end up shopping for the most part.

I honestly think about this often and I'm so happy you're talking about it

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