Just in time

Never heard of him

Another tool to scare us regards Brexit. Apparently cars won't get built. Now I know it's not ideal but so what ! I remember many many years ago probably just after we joined the common market one of my mates wanted to buy a Ford escort only to be told he could face a six week wait. He ended up buying a Date in Cherry because they could supply a car more or less straight away.

Very sharp crisp you want to be careful you don't cut yourself

Of course it's a nonsense.
Yes places now tend to get deliveries more often and have less storage on site.
Supermarkets for example can pretty much offload straight from lorry to shelf when 20 years ago they'd have store through the back.

But any decent sized business can reasonably predict what the throughput of especially any item of non perishable goods would be and have a reasonable store of that in centralised depots for distribution to the various places in the UK, and keep it at an appropriate level. It's not exactly hard to do.

It's not like Amazon in order to fulfil your order gets the CD or electronic item from Taiwan or Germany.

They have a thing called WAREHOUSES.

If e.g. VW sell on average 5 exhaust parts of type X a week and they can predict they'll be doing that the next X years it's not hard to keep say 40 of them in a store and top it up once a month. Given anything that is of a sufficient quantity there will be a reasonable prediction as to how many are required over a given period. And companies will know this.

How the hell do places like New Zealand or Australia survive I wonder...

How the hell do places like New Zealand or Australia survive I wonder...


Good point JC

There are obviously advantages of trading in a free trade area like the EU, where everything moves freely and all manufacturing standards and regulations are uniform across the different countries.

But there are other considerations besides that. Like freedom to trade outside of the EU and take advantage of cheaper goods out there.
I could never see the attraction of being ruled by foreign powers either, which seems incredible after fighting two world wars in order to remain free.
And what about the social implications of importing ready trained labour for the living standards of working class people? Do we wish our children to aspire to being little more than shelf stackers, with our skilled workforce being mainly imported?