Analysis: How the Beast from the East has exposed the fragility of the supermarket just-in-time model
Our media and social media are currently full of images of empty supermarket shelves, and, judging by the reactions to these, this is something most of us are plainly not used to seeing. These images can be seen as a growing body of evidence of the lack of resilience in our current food system – one that apparently can’t cope with the disruption of a few days worth of snow and wind about which we were given plenty of warning.
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