On my way to work early in the morning, I walk past many supermarkets in Bastille. I have come to realise that the likelihood is the supermarkets receive their deliveries early in the morning, before the store opens, to overcome be stuck in or holding up traffic. However, this is not always the case.
You see, many supermarkets along Rue De La Roquette have to accept their deliveries through the main doors because there is not enough room to have a seperate good inwards. This means lorries have to park out along the highstreet to drop off the delivery but Rue De La Roquette is not wide enough to compensate for the gigantic lorries. As a result, no matter what time of day, the deliveries hold up the traffic because delivery drivers use pump-trucks to pull the pallets, stacked high of goods, across Rue De La Roquette and in to the supermarket.
One of the reasons for this chaos is because there is no strategy behind the layout of Rue De La Roquette without any consideration taken into account for the 'What Ifs' when allowing a company to set-up.
This means that the delivery driver is forced to make many risks when delivering goods such as leaving the vehicle un-attended, moving heavy palletts up and down curbs, and in customer & vehicle pathways. What's more, the delivery driver is also in danger of getting run-over because many people become in-patient and frustrated.
In addition, this also adds to the wear-and-tear of the non-electric/electric pump-trucks. As you can imagine, road surfaces are un-even and are much rougher than smooth shop flooring. Therefore, this is also not a cost-effective solution that will detrimentally affect company expenses or even budgets.
In my opinion, this is an example of 'Statism' where the thought process is only to drive a tangible ROI and does not consider how the ROI can be driven effectively and efficiently.
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