• nxdefiant@startrek.website
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    11 months ago

    This is true of warehouses everywhere, not just ones in underdeveloped countries. Developed countries just usually have a higher turnover and distribution closer to production sources, so they sit in storage for less time.

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        11 months ago

        I’ve worked at a few warehouses picking orders and I second this. At least in the US health and building codes require rodent traps and inspections happen regularly. While I’m sure infestations happen businesses that want to stay open follow the law and get pests under control.

        It’s amusing seeing people who clearly haven’t spent time in warehouses tell internet strangers that warehouses have rats.

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        That place was horrifying, trash and spoiled food everywhere and rats running around like they owned the place.

        Are you sure it wasn’t just a regular dollar general

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          The John Oliver piece on them was the first look I’d had at them in twenty years, absolutely baffling, and just pure neoliberalism in action.