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Skriven 2011-02-26 14:42:00 av NANCY BACKUS (1:261/1381)
     Kommentar till en text av GLEN JAMIESON
Ärende: Re: FOOD MILES 10223
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-=> Quoting Glen Jamieson to Nancy Backus on 02-23-11  17:53 <=-

 NB>> Probably if they thought it would make them more profit they'd
 NB>> consider it...  or maybe the local farmers should approach the local
 NB>> management and suggest it...  Probably wouldn't help much though,
 NB>> unless upper management was receptive to the idea...

 GJ> As it is an Australia-wide chain, with an established distribution
 GJ> system it would be unlikely to change.  The only change I have seen in

If local management had any influence on upper management, maybe... but
I hear what you are saying... unless the powers that be saw any use for
the idea, it's not likely that anything would change.  It would only be
for the in-season crops anyway... they'd still have to use the main
distribution system for the out-of-local season produce...

 GJ> the local place has been internal layout whenever it gets a new
 GJ> manager, who makes his mark by moving goods around between aisles, so
 GJ> I have to learn anew where everything is located.  That is annoying to
 GJ> me and to the staff, who have to direct customers like myself.

That happens EVERYwhere... (G)  Just when one finally has it down to a
science, where everything is, it has to be moved and we have to relearn
it all... and it isn't even always a new manager that makes that
decision around here, sometimes it comes from higher up... :)

 GJ>> My local "Lucky Asian" grocer, otoh, has suppliers coming in all
 NB>> He knows what his clientele is wanting... and gets it in.  :)

 GJ> He usually has small batches of a few dozen cakes, steamed buns, made
 GJ> up packet lunches, empanadas, moon cakes, and similar which local
 GJ> Asian housewives make to earn a bit extra.  That adds interest to
 GJ> shopping there.

Yummy.  :)  Might entice shoppers to come in daily for their freshly
made snacks, too... :)

 GJ>> One unfortunate rambutan grower had just got his plantation into
 GJ>> production after it had been wiped out by cyclone Larry, 5 years ago,
 GJ>> and then along came Yasi which blew them all out again.  Some banana
 NB>> Are there measures one could take to protect the crop from
 NB>> storms better?

 GJ> I doubt it.  Rambutan have a fairly small root system, so when the
 GJ> soil is saturated it doesn't take much to blow them over.  Possibly
 GJ> ropes tieing them down...
 
How tall do they get?  Would some sort of netting help to hold them
down, or isn't that feasible...?  Or a breakwind wall of some sort?

 GJ>> growers had trimmed off the leaves of their plants just before Yasi
 GJ>> hit, and that saved most of them from being blown over.
 NB>> That was good timing.  :)

 GJ> They had a few days warning to do that trimming.

Ah.

ttyl      neb

... "All right, so it's impossible.  How long will it take?"

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