My wife is from SA. There, every supermarket and even smaller stores have generators because blackouts are frequent. A few years ago, we had a bigger 6h or so

My wife is from SA. There, every supermarket and even smaller stores have generators because blackouts are frequent. A few years ago, we had a bigger 6h or so power outage, all the stores had to throw tons of products away because there was literally no redundant power supply at all. It was my 2nd power outage in Germany in over 30 years.