The Third World
No expletive this time. Just a taste of what the third world is like.
At the end of last week Recife emerged from a black pepper shortage. Now who could ever imagine a black pepper shortage?
There was clearly some problem at the warehouse of the spice distributor, because all of the supermarkets had big empty spots on the spice aisle. Apparently somebody forgot to do inventory, and the distributor found itself without, among other things, black pepper, cumin, and rosemary.
In the first world, the inventory is in a database, and when something is shipped, the shipment is logged in the database, and as long as no one steals black pepper, the database will show when it is time to order more. And then, of course, the spice company also has everything on computers and they can ship immediately, and so on. Not in Recife. Not in the third world.
At the end of last week Recife emerged from a black pepper shortage. Now who could ever imagine a black pepper shortage?
There was clearly some problem at the warehouse of the spice distributor, because all of the supermarkets had big empty spots on the spice aisle. Apparently somebody forgot to do inventory, and the distributor found itself without, among other things, black pepper, cumin, and rosemary.
In the first world, the inventory is in a database, and when something is shipped, the shipment is logged in the database, and as long as no one steals black pepper, the database will show when it is time to order more. And then, of course, the spice company also has everything on computers and they can ship immediately, and so on. Not in Recife. Not in the third world.
posted by Venha Futuro at 6:35 PM
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