I am not surprised that it's cheaper to lose a whole store's worth of food than it is to put generators in all the stores. I figured it would be.
You guys with the "waste not, want not, no matter the cost" attitude would not do well as businessmen. In a business you have to balance the prices you charge your customers with the cost of operating the business, and come out with a profit. Charge too much, and your customers go elsewhere. Spend too much, and your investors go elsewhere.
In the grand scheme, power outages like that are far and few between. Even in disaster-prone areas, you can go for decades between long power outages.
It would take several complete losses of the refrigerated stock of a store to break even on installing a generator.
Yes, losing all that food is a waste, but it can all be replaced quite easily and cheaply as long as society continues to function.
In a true breakdown-of-society scenario, you can guarantee that NONE of it would go to waste. Looters would clear it out in no time.
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