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Some amazing images to help teach economies of scale

Jim Riley

14th December 2010

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A huge hat tip to Innes Robinson over on the superb GCSE Economics blog for spotting this absolutely priceless collection of images of Sainsbury’s main distribution centre - the ideal visual stimulus for illustrating, explaining and discussion economies of scale. The sheer scale of the distribution operation is breathtaking, as is the extent of automation in the stockholding and handing processes.

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Jim Riley

Jim co-founded tutor2u alongside his twin brother Geoff! Jim is a well-known Business writer and presenter as well as being one of the UK's leading educational technology entrepreneurs.

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