KFC chicken shortage blamed on DHL

boing
41

But that ruins the soft ■■■■■, moisty moistness of an excellent word.

4 Likes
42

I’ve heard of a therapy for that disorder - desensitization.

43

Word. Aversion. eyes glaze over, dryly smacks lips That’s like a first world problem sandwiched between another first world problem.

5 Likes
44

I really cannot understand why they did this this way. There must be companies in England who are already in the business of hauling refrigerated meat and delivering same in a usable state.

This stuff requires end to end refrigeration and sanitary procedures and can be messy as, at least when I worked in a KFC a long long time ago, the chickens were heavily packed in ice and it leaked and dripped everywhere at time during delivery.

Maybe no one explained to DHL the stuff was perishable and not books about chicken cooking or something.

2 Likes
45

I love that Pratchett is how you two happened to discover this block. It just feels appropriate.

7 Likes
46

the tags should include “clustercluck”

1 Like
47

We should strive to make the moìst of such adversity

5 Likes
48

FUSTERCLUCK.

(hattip to LeprechnGangstr)

3 Likes
49

Don’t you get “Chicken” Inna Bun, from Cut Me Own Throat Dibbler?

It would still be an improvement on what DHL are delivering.

1 Like
50

A MOlST excellent idea.

3 Likes
51

*based off username :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:

10 Likes
52

Reading the linked-to article and its description of DHL screwing up Burger King shook loose a memory of DHL screwing up Lego’s logistics (Legogistics?) a while back.

In the end Lego decided to work it out with DHL. Call it an imago informed Lego decision.

1 Like
53

Ain’t a disorder at your own house. :wink:

1 Like
54

I refuse to believe that an aversion to lugubrious is common.

2 Likes
55

Yeah but it didn’t did it (come from DHL). :wink:

2 Likes
56

There are. Bidvest is a specialist and had been doing it for KFC for some time but were undercut on a rebid. Apparently they told KFC it would fail, as Bidvest had several dedicated chilled storage depots and DHL had one nationally, and it emerged today that it was not even registered!

Hundreds of KFC shops closed as storage depot awaits registration | Food & drink industry | The Guardian.
Though I suspect the “awaits registration” issue is a trivial part of the reason why DHL has messed up KFC’s deliveries so badly. The major issue is likely that there is a big difference between a supply chain and a parcel delivery capability and too many firms re trying to expand out of their safe zones (not that DHL was ever a safe zone for parcels, even)

More stories here - all good for schadenfreude reading:

https://www.google.co.uk/search?as_q=KFC&as_epq=&as_oq=&as_eq=&as_nlo=&as_nhi=&lr=&cr=&as_qdr=all&as_sitesearch=www.theguardian.com&as_occt=any&safe=images&as_filetype=&as_rights=

57

Ah, that’s right!

But still, which came first, the KFC or the DHL? :thinking:

2 Likes
58

The KFC.

We’re still waiting for DHL

11 Likes
59

So you’re saying that none of us would climb the ladder and take the banana.

we’d just look at it.

4 Likes
60

There is an obsession with “savings” that just always seems out of reach. I am sure the bidding process was very competitive, and DHL said, hey we can do all of that AND cheaper and got signed. And then utterly fucked everything absolutely sideways and cost KFC a zillion dollars in PR debacle and unhappy customers and all that.

We are having a similar issue at my workplace, where we have a simple thing that a company did well, switched to another company that would do it just as well at better terms. Except… they are NOT doing as well and we are spending a ton of $$$ on root cause analysis, quality conttol, and retesting because of al their fuckups.

Someone, somewhere, got to check a box that they “saved us money” with that new contract and probably got a nice bonus. Except the rest of us are fucked.

2 Likes