>>It was as if there was a symmetry across the Pacific between the producers and the consumers, between the factory and the cash register. Conceptually, transp

>>It was as if there was a symmetry across the Pacific between the producers and the consumers, between the factory and the cash register. Conceptually, transportation and warehousing are artifices of the distance between producers and consumers. So why not think of the end of the manufacturing line being the cash register?