On Mon, 21 Apr 2008 20:10:24 -0700 (PDT) lorincantrell@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
| On Apr 21, 1:57?pm, phil-news-nos...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
|> On Mon, 21 Apr 2008 04:32:42 +0000 (UTC) Alan
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|>
|> | ?Given the obvious observation that trucks deliver to large stores
|> | pretty continuously, what made you think there would be a specific
time?
|>
|> The manager at the Wal-Mart store near here was able to tell me without
even
|> looking at a schedule, on what days trucks "usually" arrive for certain
types
|> of products. ?Trucks come and go every day. ?But specific item types
come in
|> only on specific delivery schedules. ?But he did note that often, an
out of
|> stock item might not come in at all (we were discussing one that had
not been
|> in the store for 6 weeks) and that sometimes it is because the item is
out of
|> stock at the warehouse, and sometimes it is low priority and does not
make it
|> onto the truck. ?He mentioned they almost never send partial
truckloads.
|>
|> What I wonder is, once the truck is emptied at the store, if there is a
vendor
|> nearby not too far off the return route, would it be feasible to divert
the
|> empty truck over there and pick up a load to go to the warehouse?
|>
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|> | Phil Howard KA9WGN (email for humans: first name in lower case at
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| That is known as "backhaul" and it does happen. With a company like
| Wal-Mart though, you never know. Their supply chain is massive and
| global. The chances of the supplier of any particular item being
| local to you and being between your local store and the Wal-Mart
| distribution center is low. You probably won't see this though as I'm
| using Google groups.
I don't buy that logic. Now, I don't mean local to _me_ specifically.
Given the scale of Wal-Mart, any one supplier is likely to be near at
least ONE of their Wal-Mart stores. So it would seem reasonable to me
for that supplier to hire the Wal-Mart "backhaul" to carry their products
to the warehouse. It's the "green" thing to do.
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