Published.
April 19, 2020 06: 15:47
For many individuals the beginning of the coronavirus crisis was marked with scrambles to purchase toilet tissue and supermarket scrums.
Now the majority of us seem to have actually calmed down.
However how come we are still seeing some empty shelves in the grocery store?
The causal sequence of panic purchasing
Everybody is still playing catch up.
Coles chief operations officer Matt Swindells stated the panic purchasing phenomenon started a causal sequence that impacted every aspect of the supply chain.
To get everything back to regular, “all of that has to be unpicked”, Mr Swindells stated.
Which could take weeks.
Normally, when an item is cleaned off the shelf, supermarket staff may have been able “go out back” to get more of that product from recent deliveries.
If there’s none there, they ‘d have to await a delivery to be trucked from a distribution centre or direct from a producer.
And if there’s no stock at the storage facility, they ‘d have to wait on the manufacturer to make more of the product.
However the manufacturer