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<blockquote data-quote="bacha29" data-source="post: 4866266" data-attributes="member: 58386"><p>This entire process will take time. The nation's population only grew 7.1% total over the past decade and out of a country of 330 million only 17 million are ages 12-15 and an average of 10,000 boomer a day will continue to march off to retirement over the next decade The down side of E-Commerce is that it requires an ocean of cheap labor especially at the back end of the transaction. Labor shortages beginning in certain parts of the country after the pandemic is over is a real possibility and is likely to spread to other parts. Talked to a manger at my former terminal this AM and asked how it was going...." Severely short handed every damn day" was his answer. </p><p></p><p>Now Bsam and IWBF might not see it for awhile but in my locale it was already starting to happen 6 years ago when I chose not to expand. I was 62 years old needed new replacement body parts and among the few people willing to come in and drive for the pittance I could pay none were the type of people with whom I could entrust my economic affairs to . As for the people who stayed and expanded....well, at first they were grinning like a butcher's dog at the prospect of making bank but they didn't last long and for the very same reasons why I abstained from expansion. </p><p></p><p>You're never going to make dedicated professional operators out of burger flippers and job drifters. Even more so if you pay burger flipper wages. if you can get by with 3 men to a truck turnover....that's fine but don't expect it to go on forever because the demographic numbers are not supportive of a continued practice.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="bacha29, post: 4866266, member: 58386"] This entire process will take time. The nation's population only grew 7.1% total over the past decade and out of a country of 330 million only 17 million are ages 12-15 and an average of 10,000 boomer a day will continue to march off to retirement over the next decade The down side of E-Commerce is that it requires an ocean of cheap labor especially at the back end of the transaction. Labor shortages beginning in certain parts of the country after the pandemic is over is a real possibility and is likely to spread to other parts. Talked to a manger at my former terminal this AM and asked how it was going...." Severely short handed every damn day" was his answer. Now Bsam and IWBF might not see it for awhile but in my locale it was already starting to happen 6 years ago when I chose not to expand. I was 62 years old needed new replacement body parts and among the few people willing to come in and drive for the pittance I could pay none were the type of people with whom I could entrust my economic affairs to . As for the people who stayed and expanded....well, at first they were grinning like a butcher's dog at the prospect of making bank but they didn't last long and for the very same reasons why I abstained from expansion. You're never going to make dedicated professional operators out of burger flippers and job drifters. Even more so if you pay burger flipper wages. if you can get by with 3 men to a truck turnover....that's fine but don't expect it to go on forever because the demographic numbers are not supportive of a continued practice. [/QUOTE]
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