Be Better than Yesterday

Founder Better than Yesterday Consulting LLC. You get what you pay for, in Twitters case that = sarcasm, Rush, NY sports, beer, and leadership training.

[Be Better than Yesterday @DrewHelmholtz]

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[Be Better than Yesterday @DrewHelmholtz]

@M_Stavroupolis @TheJetPress And tonight, both turnovers just bad luck. Just make an adjustment that has a positive result. Show a sign of life.

[Be Better than Yesterday @DrewHelmholtz]

@TheJetPress I didn't expect a win tonight. I've defended Saleh. Tonight is just hard to watch after the first quarter. 49ers are missing their number one RB. They adjusted. Almost 4th quarter and no adjustments. Same ol Jets.

[Be Better than Yesterday @DrewHelmholtz]

@nyjets @AaronRodgers12 #GreenandWhiteSweepstakes

[New York Jets @nyjets]

get ya signed @AaronRodgers12 jersey hereeeee

retweet & reply #GreenandWhiteSweepstakes to win!!

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[Be Better than Yesterday @DrewHelmholtz]

@ThatEricAlper

[Be Better than Yesterday @DrewHelmholtz]

@NHL_Rosters How is Duclair only 29? It feels like he's been in the league or trade talks for the last twenty years 😂

[Be Better than Yesterday @DrewHelmholtz]

@mtaibbi As a fellow 6'8"er, we have all said that. Also, we look down on everyone.
Also, it is windy up here.
Also, no I did not play professional basketball.

He's just blocking replies because of the tall / short jokes. Yeah, that's it.

[Be Better than Yesterday @DrewHelmholtz]

@kaitlinous

[Be Better than Yesterday @DrewHelmholtz]

@OhRyanMead There's only one way to materially breach...

[Robert Sterling @RobertMSterling]

People need to stop overreacting about Kamala’s plan to reduce food inflation, as if it would lead to communism, mass starvation, and the end of America.

I worked in M&A in the food industry. Here’s a step-by-step summary of what would actually happen:

1. The government announces that grocery retailers aren’t allowed to raise prices.

2. Grocery stores, which operate on 1-2% net margins, can’t survive if their suppliers raise prices. So the government announces that food producers (Kraft Heinz, ConAgra, Tyson, Hormel, et. al.) also aren’t allowed to raise prices.

3. Not all grocery stores are created equal. Stores in lower-income areas make less money than those in higher-income areas, as the former disproportionately sell lower-margin prepackaged foods (“center of the store”) instead of higher-margin fresh products like meat (“perimeter of the store”). Because stores in lower-income areas aren’t able to cover overhead (remember, even if their wholesale costs are fixed, their labor, utilities, insurance, and other operating expenses aren’t fixed… yet), grocery chains start to shut them down. Food deserts in rural areas and in low-income urban areas alike become worse.

4. Meanwhile, margins for food producers are also quickly eroding. Their primary costs (ingredients, energy, and labor) aren’t fixed, and their shrinking gross profits leave less cash flow available to cover overhead, maintain facilities, and reinvest in additional production capacity.

5. Grocery chains, which have finite shelf space, start to repurpose their stores (those they didn’t have to shut down, I should say) to sell more non-price-controlled items—everything from nutrition supplements to kitchenware to apparel—and less price-controlled food products. Your local Kroger or Safeway starts to look and feel more like a Walmart.

6. Food producers stop making products with lower margins. Grocery chain start competing with each other to secure inventory. Since they can’t compete by offering stronger prices (remember, producers aren’t allowed to raise prices here, and, even if they could, grocery chains no longer have the gross profit to bear price increases), they compete on things like payment terms.

7. Small grocery chains start to shut down entirely, or get sold to larger chains like Kroger. In addition to not being able to cover fixed costs, a major reason for this is because they can no longer reliably secure delivery of products, due to producers prioritizing sales to larger customers, which are able to leverage their stronger balance sheets to offer superior payment terms.

8. Smaller food producers—which typically sell via distributors, rather than directly to grocery chains—start to go out of business. Because these producers have an additional step their value chains, and because they have lower volumes over which to spread their fixed costs, their cost structure is inherently disadvantaged compared to major food producers. When grocery stores aren’t able to raise prices, cutting product costs becomes all the more important, and deprioritizing purchases from smaller producers is an easy way to do so.

9. As supply chains break down, lines start to form outside grocery stores every morning. Cities assign police officers to patrol store parking lots, and food producers draft contingency plans to assign armed escorts to delivery trucks.

10. The federal government announces a program to issue block grants for states to purchase and operate shuttered grocery stores. The USDA also seizes closed-down production facilities.

11. The government announces that prices for all key food costs—corn, wheat, cattle, energy, etc.—are also now fixed, to stop “profiteers” from gouging the now-government-operated food industry.

12. Shockingly, the government struggles to operate one of the most complex industries on the planet. The entire food supply chain starts imploding.

13. Communism, mass starvation, and the end of America quickly ensue.

Hey wait a second

[Be Better than Yesterday @DrewHelmholtz]

@OhRyanMead

[Be Better than Yesterday @DrewHelmholtz]

@hayyyshayyy

[Be Better than Yesterday @DrewHelmholtz]

@OhRyanMead @NYRangers I'll put a few BSB patches on my jerseys when I attend this one 😂

[George Mack @george__mack]

How to improve X:

(One button could change this whole platform)

[Prog Rock Songs @progrocksongs]

Today marks the 32nd anniversary of the release of Dream Theater's second studio album Images and Words, one of the best progressive metal albums of all time…
&
Here is a full concert video:
Dream Theater - Images and Words: Live in Tokyo, 1993

[Be Better than Yesterday @DrewHelmholtz]

@ATRightMovies It's also the reason (a reason?) the DCEU ended 😂

[Be Better than Yesterday @DrewHelmholtz]

@NYJetsTFMedia @ChadPennington The only jersey my dad owned, b1944.
Now in my closet. Could've been amazing.

[Be Better than Yesterday @DrewHelmholtz]

@Johnubacon That's because it would look really silly to win the commissioners(?) trophy in baseball then start ice skating around the field. Hi John.

[Clint Murphy @IAmClintMurphy]

A “Razor” is a rule of thumb that simplifies decision making.

Here are 16 Razors every person should know:

[Be Better than Yesterday @DrewHelmholtz]

@historyinmemes All I hear is "my name is maximus Meridius, you killed your father, prepare to die."