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And so I got some fast education and tutorials about the warehousing business, supply chain management, contract logistics. I looked into the customers were. I saw opportunities to do things with those customers in the original four things we're look
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And they were in a few things. They did truck brokerage, which we like. They were doing expedite, which we like. And they're doing freight forwarding, which is okay too. And our original plan was, okay, let's buy this company and let's keep buying mo
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But we know in trucks that you have a down period, and then thousands and thousands of owner operators will come out of the market and go out of business and stuff. Right? And so supply swings down and up in trucking in a way that would be unimaginab
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Like, talk about talk to us about the risks and how they compound the longer the war goes on or the longer the disruptions are in this particular part of the world. Well, since that is that the risk to Yeah. Yeah. Global supply chain. Supply chain? I
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...I need this product next to me in Ho Chi Minh. You need to figure out how to get me that. Oh, this packaging guy. Okay. You have a sister company maybe in Hanoi. Okay. Now I need to figure out how to access that. So you're seeing the replication of s
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...make, production and pricing decisions. Right? And so the key idea is that, the the state of the world, in which firms operate, right, can can change underlying so as economists, we say the the state of the economy changes, even starting from potenti
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and we're only gonna do shipments that are not, like, that are within this time frame. Like, you have to give us this much notice. And we kinda said, if you wanna work with us, we're not gonna extend ourselves with something we don't know how to do y
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You started waiting to order two days in advance if you're a Prime customer because you could. And once you waited till two or three days left, where else are you gonna buy it? No one else delivers in that time frame. So the secret was being faster t
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...production of the low end in Vietnam, but, presumably, there is still some deficiency
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so that you could have your high velocity items in the automated facility. And then for the more specialty items you could go and manually pick these items from the live grocery store nearby. That's the ideal situation if you start from scratch. You'
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small number of them, and they're sort of sparsely connected. And what that allows them to do is to move trucks continuously back and forth loaded with cars between these IRCs. And you can think about the minimal train tracks where the the vehicles a
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via, logistics, on nine car haulers. And what that does is it's built a hub and spoke logistics system. It's it's it's like FedEx or something. The sort of insight there, which Ernie had, was if you wanted historically, if you wanted to ship cars, it
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along the supply chain. So we make the example of this apparently small episode, like in the Suez Canal two years ago, sort of a ship, container shipping oil and other inputs got stuck for a few days. We remember it well. Yeah. We remember it well. R
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