15 comments

  • Simulacra an hour ago

    Wow, this is actually interesting, I had not heard of people eating hard attack since the American Civil War. But looking at a map, it doesn't look that difficult to get to, so I'm curious why not just fly it in?

    • chocochunks 25 minutes ago

      Because no one else really eats it or makes it. AFAIK that Purity factory is the only one in Canada making it and outside of Newfoundland it's hard to find on a normal day even in the rest of Atlantic Canada. And when you do, it's the Purity version shipped over. It's very much a Newfoundland food.

  • charcircuit an hour ago

    >Grocery stores across Newfoundland and Labrador have been struggling to keep hard bread in stock since a fire at the Purity factory in March put a crimp in the company’s baking operations.

    Is it really that hard to raise the price to keep it in stock?

    • pjc50 4 minutes ago

      You know what's really oversupplied in this subthread? One sentence contrarianism.

      (not that I haven't done it myself occasionally, but guys you really are not helping anyone here including yourselves)

    • close04 an hour ago

      Raising the price doesn't increase the supply, it just selects who can access it. Most of the people will still not get it, just for a different reason.

      • mhluongo 40 minutes ago

        A higher margin increases the incentive for people to make more, though.

      • card_zero 42 minutes ago

        That implies that everything with a price is always out of stock.

        • bluecheese452 32 minutes ago

          It implies no such thing.

          • card_zero 27 minutes ago

            The presence of a price "selects who can access it", hence there's not enough stock to give it away for free. (Sometimes deliberately.)

            • watwut 3 minutes ago

              Wut? That makes no sense.

        • squigz 35 minutes ago

          No, it implies that everything with a price and a supply issue will likely still face that supply issue even with a higher price.

          • card_zero 32 minutes ago

            Everything with a price has a supply issue.