In possibly the only user ever for Twitter moments: https://twitter.com/i/moments/1039091743075917824 … The recent earthquake in Hokkaido has disrupted (normally incredibly reliable) logistics networks, resulting in some stores having far, far less selection than usual. You will enjoy the spirit.
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“What did you do?” “I called the closest (rival supermarket), asked for the manager, and said ‘I will soon run out of rice.’ He came by in 30 minutes with his truck and all the rice they could pull off the shelves.” “Wait what.” “Everyone knows: can’t run out of rice.”)
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(I assume given the culture that is small town grocery managers that there was a good faith attempt made at an invoice the following day, at cost, but imagine neither side spent any time on that before the rice was re-shelved at the supermarket.)
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I think with respect to small towns in Japan the mechanism is closer to "We are peers, members of a de-facto guild and de-facto pillars of our community, and we so share values and interests that the notion of allowing a peer to suffer certain flavors of failure is an affront."
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