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The answers include * Consistency: you know every store in a chain is going to be within a standard deviation or so of every other * Economies of scale * Dev
by ranger207 3y ago
The answers include
* Consistency: you know every store in a chain is going to be within a standard deviation or so of every other
* Economies of scale
* Developing specific supply chains for their business. Sure there's not a specific Applebee's supply chain company, but there are specific product managers at supply chain companies for Applebee's products, and when you take the set of product managers, warehouse space, supply contracts, etc across the whole supply chain industry it results in a specific supply chain for a specific company in a way you can't get if you're a small business
- camgunz 3y agoI really like your 3rd point here because, yeah, I don't think we'd have the efficient supply chains we do now without huge chains to ensure profitability. I think you have to say that's been a huge boon to efficiency. But I also think it's generally bad and weird. Like how many people know that between the major orange juice brands the only difference is the different perfume they use in the concoction? Supply chains are incentivized to deliver huge loads of essentially crap that breaks constantly so demand stays high, or food that's totally loaded with fat/sugar/salt so you eat way more. Plus like, where does that profit go (not the 99% right)?