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[–] Kbin_space_program@kbin.social 24 points 11 months ago (9 children)

Target: logistics methodology....

laughs in Canadian

No they don't.

[–] SCB@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago (6 children)

Canadian logistics sucks in general because Canada is one of the worst places, in terms of how population is scattered, to deliver any goods to.

As a result, Canadian drivers often get US transport authority so they can make more money, but American drivers will rarely get Canadian authority.

[–] Kbin_space_program@kbin.social 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (5 children)

No, not really. 2/3rds of the population lives along the Great Lakes and the St Lawrence River. The only out of the way centers are Calgary, Edmonton and Vancouver. But goods coming from Asia are going through those anyways.

Target executives were explicitly told by HBC executives that their logistics weren't up to par, before the company moved up here.
I have friends who worked for Target here who described their logistics as a bad joke. And they work for the government now in logistics.

[–] LostWon@lemmy.ca 2 points 11 months ago

A couple of regions aren't enough to make it worthwhile, at least according to an article I read recently.

From the link:

  1. Economies of scale. Canada has a population of 39 million spread across a very large geographic area. Compared to other G-7 countries, retailers don’t benefit from economies of scale in Canada unless they operate across the entire country. A regional operator in the northeast U.S., for example, has a potential market of more than 125 million, while a regional operator in Canada is lucky to have a potential market of 15 million.
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