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How hard is it to advertise your 'will call' and do curbside delivery to her parking lot?

The foodservice purveyors are doing exactly that around here. 40# case of chickens? They'll put it right into your trunk.

Just gotta think outside the box. Hell, I'll bet her company even has a couple scales and some 1000' rolls of plastic wrap and butcher paper.

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To fucking who? It's commercial food for commercial kitchens. Hotels, Restaurants.

It's not packaged all nice and neat like the stuff you see in the grocery store, and your local Susan isn't buying 300lbs of butter at time.

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No cruise ships, no hotel stays, no tourism, no beaches.

These D.C. government robots with paychecks coming off the money press are so out of touch with how many Americans have nothing coming in right now. My neighbor owns a commercial food distribution biz that services restaurants and she can't afford to reopen it. All the employees(50-60) are hosed.

We have to get back to work..

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Blaming our government for this virus is kinda like blaming the NYC city council for 9/11
This virus exists to the extent it does because China lied and concealed the truth.
They are responsible for this. Every other government is simply trying to choose the least worst path through this mess...because there is no good path.

I'd be fine with Trump sending a letter to China stating that we have elected to default on 100% of our debt to them, that we consider their neglect an act of war, and that in response we are writing our debt to them off our books...end of game. Fuck them...their industry...their economy...and the nations who foster them. I'm not sure who would be more pissed....China, or all the nations they owe (our) money to.

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You have a plan for grouping lots of people together with a contagious virus on the loose that has no vaccine?

I sure as heck do not.  But, I suppose my 80 year old mother has had a decent run.

I'm in retail construction and I can easily see that the next few years are going to suck.

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We have several restaurant suppliers, around here, that almost immediately started selling at retail. If they didn't have a facebook page, they made one and started posting about the sales.

I'm not trying to be unsympathetic, but, as a business owner, you have to quick thinking and can't always rely on the same business model. She sells food, just change to a different buying market.

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Let me preface this question by saying that I know absolutely nothing about commercial food distribution, outside of seeing Sysco trucks running around.

If a bunch of these small distribution companies go under, how do restaurants get food to serve once they are ready to reopen? I'm not part of that world, so I have no idea how many different companies are in the industry.

Does a restaurant owner have a Rolodex of different companies they can call to get food and supplies, or do they end up going to Kroger or the local butcher shop and paying retail when their supplier goes down? Are they contractually obligated to use specific distributors?

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Unfortunately even if all government mandates closing businesses were lifted tomorrow, MANY people would choose not to go to restaurants, bars, sporting events, and so on.

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It’s like this everywhere. The virus was bad- the cure is far, far worse

TALLAHASSEE, FL — Facing an unprecedented wave of unemployment in his state and mounting pressure from the business community, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said Friday he will take the weekend to cull through recommendations from a task force working on a short-term plan for reopening Florida amid the coronavirus outbreak.

"I'm not concerned about specific dates as much as I am about getting it right," the governor said. "I'm going to work today, and all through the weekend, about what we need to do and make sure we're doing it in the way that makes the most sense."

Meanwhile, Florida's unemployment website called CONNECT was down Friday and visitors were greeted with an online apology: "We apologize for the inconvenience. CONNECT will be available at 8 a.m Monday, April 27."

DeSantis acknowledged the system was a poor investment of $77 million before he was elected governor. Even so, he said, a team of 2,200 state workers has managed to push out 200,000 payments this week.

"This thing was a clunker," the governor said. "There’s no doubt about it. It was designed with all these different things to basically fail."

A state task force comprised of business leaders, elected officials, industry groups and educators has been meeting all week to come up with a short-term plan for reopening the state. The task force will also work on medium-term and long-term plans for reopening the state.

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The governor's news conference on Friday came as the number of confirmed cases of the new coronavirus rose to 30,174 and deaths for the first time surpassed the 1,000 mark. See 30,174 Florida Cases Of Coronavirus; 1,012 Deaths

"It’s been a rough couple of months, not only for the state but for the country," DeSantis said. "People have sacrificed a lot to be able to fight the spread of this virus. We’ve seen people out of work in numbers that we’re not used to."

DeSantis did not say whether he will extend his emergency order for Florida's more than 20 million residents who have been told to stay home unless they are engaged in "essential services" and "essential activities."

"There's no firm date where we've got to go to this phase or that phase," the governor said. "Let's make sure we're doing it thoughtfully. Let's make sure we have input from not just folks in the business community, in the medical community, but also folks in local government in different parts of the state."

A new poll of Florida voters released this week found an overwhelming majority do not want social distancing rules relaxed just yet.

The Quinnipiac University poll said 72 percent of the registered Florida voters they surveyed favor not loosening social distancing requirements at the end of April.

"We have a big diverse state," DeSantis told reporters. "I think there's probably some pretty divergent views about the path forward in different regions of the state."

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@SuperSixOne, half my family is out of work and hurting big time in South Florida. They all work the hospitality industry. The State's handling of Unemployment is also a complete clusterfuck. Lawmakers in Tallahassee have no clue.

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How does she get food? Her mail? To the doctor for her appointments?

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No one is blaming the .gov for the virus, we're blaming them for the retarded response.

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I own a small grocery store.  We are taking orders from local restaurants for products and purchasing it for them while selling at our exact purchase price to help them keep going.  There are minimum amounts required to be ordered for a truck to make a delivery, and they just don't have enough business to justify it.  We on the other hand do, and can easy tack on anything they need to keep them going.  One of their large delivery companies just went to once a week delivery as well to reduce their operating costs.  While that helps with their minimum orders, it is not often enough to supply them.  I don't know if they will make it or not, but it is foolish and selfish for our store sit by and do nothing when it only takes me an half of an hour to source what they need and have it delivered to us for them.

The largest restaurant offered to pay retail, but they are trying to keep people working.  They can pay retail if they wish when this is over.  They need their money more than I do right now.

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No cruise ships, no hotel stays, no tourism, no beaches.

These D.C. government robots with paychecks coming off the money press are so out of touch with how many Americans have nothing coming in right now. My neighbor owns a commercial food distribution biz that services restaurants and she can't afford to reopen it. All the employees(50-60) are hosed.

We have to get back to work..

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Lol, month? She gonna eat canned everything?!?

Corona lives for days on some surfaces. You gonna disinfect her mail too? You gonna get other people to not touch her mail? Her food?

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Once upon a time people built things in this country.  Useful things

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I'd be fine with Trump sending a letter to China stating that we have elected to default on 100% of our debt to them, that we consider their neglect an act of war, and that in response we are writing our debt to them off our books...end of game. Fuck them...their industry...their economy...and the nations who foster them. I'm not sure who would be more pissed....China, or all the nations they owe (our) money to.

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I disagree.  I think many more people are sick of the lies about the contagiousness and death rate. They will go out to shop and eat out.  Well, the ones still employed will.

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No cruise ships, no hotel stays, no tourism, no beaches.

These D.C. government robots with paychecks coming off the money press are so out of touch with how many Americans have nothing coming in right now. My neighbor owns a commercial food distribution biz that services restaurants and she can't afford to reopen it. All the employees(50-60) are hosed.

We have to get back to work..

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If they lifted restrictions tomorrow,  those jobs aren't coming back. People arent going to flock back with the virus still going. Those jobs are gone and those people need to go somewhere else and learn a new trade

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Thank God they closed the boat ramps.   All those snook and tarpon fishers are the largest spread of the virus south of a New York convalescent home.


Fucking morons run this state.   Unbelievable that governors have not been impeached.

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No cruise ships, no hotel stays, no tourism, no beaches.

These D.C. government robots with paychecks coming off the money press are so out of touch with how many Americans have nothing coming in right now. My neighbor owns a commercial food distribution biz that services restaurants and she can't afford to reopen it. All the employees(50-60) are hosed.

We have to get back to work..

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It’s ruined everywhere, the doomers and uninformed just can’t see it yet.

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You have a plan for grouping lots of people together with a contagious virus on the loose that has no vaccine?

I sure as heck do not.  But, I suppose my 80 year old mother has had a decent run.

I'm in retail construction and I can easily see that the next few years are going to suck.