Without power they could use backup sources but without telecoms isn't payment going to be difficult to impossible? (except those who had sufficient cash before the emergency)
ksec · 38m ago
>The idea is that no one should be more than 50 km from such a store and it should prevent hoarding/panic buying as people will know basic food will be available in an emergency.
I dont think that is how it works? That is assuming people wont flock out to buy everything in the emergency store. And do people visit it every day or are these "Emergency Stores". After all they need to replenish stock.
Or are these simply some form of marketing play?
Off-Topic: Its been while since I last visited a The Mastodon site and it seems a lot faster than before.
eru · 24m ago
> That is assuming people wont flock out to buy everything in the emergency store.
Well, you could make everything really expensive in these emergency stores during an emergency.
chrisphilip · 2m ago
Isn’t this just price gouging which is illegal in much of the US at least, I don’t know about internationally.
tokai · 49m ago
Feels a bit like cheeky marketing from Salling Group, when its just a concept years away from being rolled out. I don't see them running stores with sub optimal stock and other complexities, just for the good of their hearts. Or maybe they just looked at the odds and concluded that likelihood of a lockdown-like event is enough to make it a sound investment.
unethical_ban · 1h ago
Three days seems low, but any resilience is better than no resilience.
eddythompson80 · 53m ago
Well, there is always the question of who’s gonna pay for that resiliency. We see it all the time in software deployment. After each extended outage of a major network or cloud/service provider, there is always a flurry of sudden interest in disaster recovery, multi-zonal deployments, failover solutions, and redundancy up and down the chain of everything. 6 months or a year later, people and organizations get sick of paying for that. They either nerf it, making it just a useless checkbox or just abandon it completely because “if us-east-2 is down, then everything is down. Who cares”. A couple of years pass, then another incident happens, rinse and repeat.
larholm · 1h ago
These stores are not supposed to prepare you for three days of resilience in advance.
They are meant to be available as reliable and functioning stores throughout a crisis period. Your go-to destination for purchasing vital goods during the crisis.
fragmede · 34m ago
It's the local supermarket. How many days in advance am I supposed to have food for? (I have prepper quantities of food and don't know what's normal. three days seems pretty normal to me.)
hadlock · 1h ago
A big chunk of society has realistically 2-3 days of groceries in their house, plus maybe a 5-year-old bag of rice or pasta and can of string beans buried way in the back. If you have a 1-6 year old you're probably buying 1-3 gallons of milk per week, and need to get more tomorrow.
downrightmike · 1h ago
After covid, we keep a stock of extra dry goods on hand. If you need that much milk, it can just be frozen when found on sale. As long as it completely defrosts, you don't get any ice
mopsi · 35m ago
Three days is realistic timeframe for restoring power and rudimentary network connectivity.
metalman · 1h ago
a whole fucking country cosplaying as prepers, but without the guns and trucks it's a bit lame
edit: downvoted? comeon!, it's like they let.a bunch of adorkable 11 year old's design there emergency response ,simple serios and pragmatic
phyzome · 20m ago
You seem pretty het up over some basic resilience.
0xfaded · 1h ago
The Danish word for hoarding is "hamstering". Perhaps the most adorable thing about the language. (P.S. the pronunciation of hygge is anything but hyggelig)
decimalenough · 52m ago
I always wondered why, until I actually got a hamster. Turns out that when presented with a large amount of food, they "hamster" it by stuffing their massive cheeks until they're bulging, then scurry off to consume in peace.
Hah yeah Denmark is very boring compared to many other countries :) ... and not meant as a warrantless dig against a large country with a high ratio of pistols-per-capita, but I did research it yesterday and from what I can tell America hasn't changed the 10 rights in their Bill Of Rights ever, whereas Denmark has made major revisions to its entire constitution multiple times.
jfengel · 48m ago
We change our Bill of Rights all the time. We just do it by "reinterpreting" it, i.e. applying the prejudices of the last 4 or 5 Presidents.
Conveniently, none of it actually means anything at all, so it is routinely reinterpreted to mean exactly the opposite of what it might appear to mean.
That's not quite true. You still can't quarter soldiers in somebody's house. We Americans have a firm fixed belief in the Third Amendment.
darknavi · 49m ago
I'd add that some U.S. states are actively attempting to make it harder/impossible to amend their state's constitution!
One needs to monitor Russia for this matter. Luckily the SOP and the way Russia just bomb not occupy or invade with the original people in mind, meant you can know they are coming by seeing them stockpiling annd tank/trunk … drone not sure. Just wonder some 3 day storage …well better than nothing.
layman51 · 1h ago
I read this two or three times and have no idea what you are trying to convey.
I dont think that is how it works? That is assuming people wont flock out to buy everything in the emergency store. And do people visit it every day or are these "Emergency Stores". After all they need to replenish stock.
Or are these simply some form of marketing play?
Off-Topic: Its been while since I last visited a The Mastodon site and it seems a lot faster than before.
Well, you could make everything really expensive in these emergency stores during an emergency.
They are meant to be available as reliable and functioning stores throughout a crisis period. Your go-to destination for purchasing vital goods during the crisis.
edit: downvoted? comeon!, it's like they let.a bunch of adorkable 11 year old's design there emergency response ,simple serios and pragmatic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-3x7dLXoAk
Conveniently, none of it actually means anything at all, so it is routinely reinterpreted to mean exactly the opposite of what it might appear to mean.
That's not quite true. You still can't quarter soldiers in somebody's house. We Americans have a firm fixed belief in the Third Amendment.
https://missouriindependent.com/2025/09/08/missouri-house-ad...