• Why has JIT broken down? Brexit. and maybe...

    • post covid demand spike (eg raw building materials; wood, steel concrete )
    • long term declining HGV job numbers (job conditions, ageing workforce)
    • lack of new drivers due to covid stopping testing
    • tax reform (HMRC)
    • global transport issues (container rates & movement)
    • global manufacturing issues (semiconductors, PPE, vaccines)

    Moving away from JIT is the future. It will need a the modern day consumer to become less of a buyer/capitalist and accept that 4 types of tomatoes on the shelf and non next day delivery on tat from a sweat shop is OK.

  • Moving away from JIT is our future- and it will, as you say, reduce choice, increase costs and reduce competition whilst driving away inward investment (for example Honda).

    Meanwhile, for the EU nothing has changed.

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