Grocers Stopped Stockpiling Food. Then Came Coronavirus

Annie Gasparro, Jennifer Smith, Jaewon Kang, Wall Street Journal

Food sellers in the U.S. spent years making their supply chains efficient. Then a pandemic hit, and the strategy backfired.

In the past two decades, producers and grocery stores such as Kroger Co. have gone from keeping months of inventory on hand to holding only a four to six weeks’ supply.

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