Breadless

[Jolly]

We have a couple of Dollar Generals, two country stores and one Family Dollar in the area. No bread.

Talked to the manager of one of the Dollar General stores and she said she got 10 loaves yesterday. Lasted less than 30 minutes.

Seems like the warehouse is in New Orleans...

Which brings up something I was griping about the other day...When I was a young man, we still had a local dairy, a local bakery (Holsum), a local sawmill and a brick plant. They supplied products for the region and employed local people.

Nowadays, GWTW...If a hub goes down, it doesn't effect just one group of parishes, it can effect states...

[Mik]

Yep. Supply chain will be the death of the species.

[Doctor Phibes]

@jolly said in Breadless:

Which brings up something I was griping about the other day...When I was a young man, we still had a local dairy, a local bakery (Holsum), a local sawmill and a brick plant. They supplied products for the region and employed local people.

Yeah, the world's changed all right, and not always for the better. There was a bakery in the grocer's at the end of our road, I remember the smell was fantastic - the shop's still there, but the bakery closed down when I was very young, and is now a barber's. My friend's dad ran a dairy farm, with milk delivered to the house every day.

My mum told us she remembered walking up the road to watch the local blacksmith at work.

Now, of course, we've all got broadband.

[Loki]

@mik said in Breadless:

Yep. Supply chain will be the death of the species.

Struth.