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by pwg 2244 days ago
> Home bakers and factories are both using the same basic ingredients, so why can’t supply chain’s easily swap?

Because the commercial bakery wants the flour in a 100 lb bag, but the retail store needs 100 1 lb bags. And the commercial packaging lines can't easily swap to packing their product into 1 lb bags.

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Not to single you out, but multiple people made that same basic comment despite that being the point of my post. Was this unclear?

And the simple reality is they use different bags for transport and factories to fill the bags. Thus it’s a bag problem not a flour problem.

I generally aim for clear and casual communication and it seems like I messed up somewhere.