Grocery freight now weighs what groceries weigh
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Six food staples and Gasoline had wholesale-era unit weights — a 25 kg pack of Flour, a 40 kg litre of fuel. Each unit now weighs and measures like the pack it represents, so shipping and storing consumer goods is dramatically cheaper.
Older food resources were tuned when a unit meant a wholesale sack, while newer ones already meant one retail pack. That made grocery logistics absurdly expensive: hauling 100 packs of Flour weighed as much as a truck.
One unit now weighs and measures like what it is at the counter:
- Flour 25 kg → 2 kg (a retail bag), Milk 15 kg → 2 kg (a 2 L bottle), Packaged Meat 10 kg → 1 kg (a tray)
- Bread & Baked Goods 5 kg → 0.8 kg (a loaf), Canned Goods 8 kg → 0.5 kg (a can), Processed Food 8 kg → 1 kg (a ready-meal pack)
- Gasoline 40 kg → 0.75 kg: road logistics always metered it per litre — now a litre finally weighs a litre.
Volumes shrank to match, so supermarkets and depots fit realistically more stock. Recipes, demand and prices are untouched — only freight costs and storage change.