Delivering the Deal

It’s just crazy where our stuff comes from lately. It might only be manufactured in the next town, but to get it to your local shop it must be delivered from much further afield to a distribution centre before it can be sent to the shelves. That’s because every little process has been farmed out to another company to look after; which in theory bumps up the price and makes each item that little more expensive. Then the distribution company comes along which arranges a bulk discount which it keeps for itself. It saves the factories from having to arrange shipping for its customers and allows them to reach a wider range of customers. But this mass shipping often means that items are mixed together for the deliveries; making items more likely to be damaged along the way. The distributor then simply asks for the stock to be replaced; which simply generates more items of less value.