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We have apparently reached the stage of the attention economy where even sardines can experience a demand shock because someone branded eating only one food for
by BrtByte 1mo ago
We have apparently reached the stage of the attention economy where even sardines can experience a demand shock because someone branded eating only one food for three days as a "diet"
- cma 1mo ago>We have apparently reached the stage There used to be only 3 TV channels or so. You had things like Johnny Carson jokes causing a toilet paper shortage. In Britain, Delia Smith's How to Cook caused 10% swings in egg sales, far more abundant and harder to affect than something like inventories of sardines. https://www.bbcamerica.com/blogs/british-icon-of-the-week-delia-smith-the-doyenne-of-u-k-cookery--1016238 https://www.bbcamerica.com/blogs/british-icon-of-the-week-de...
- account42 1mo agoA lot of that is more about lack of buffer in grocery supply chains rather than the scale of the induced demand.