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Jan 5, 2022 | 3:57 PM
PRINCE GEORGE – The Lower Mainland is bracing for another major storm. And, while a bit of snow hasn’t much bearing on Northern BC, what happens in the Lower Mainland does have massive implications on supply chains.
UNBC Business professor, Charles Scott says the perishable items, such as fruits, vegetables, and meats, are the first and most obvious, sign of a system that isn’t working.
“We’ve built systems based on abundant and cheap. And that means efficiency and that means ‘Just in time.’ We’ve built systems in which we can source anything from anywhere. The problem is when those systems don’t function anymore. We have built around efficiency, not resilience.”
There are some consumers who simply say, when the roads are complicated or, in the case of November and December, the roads are destroyed, divert the products through the United States.
