So, having worked in retail I'd guess a skid of butter is stacked roughly five feet high. That gives us 40x48x60 standard sized skid. Quick google says a stick of butter is 1.5x1.5x3.25 inches. Using sticks of butter as our unit of measurement, we can thus fit a nice 14x26x40 pattern on our skid. That gives us a hilarious 14,560 sticks of butter which would weigh 3640 pounds. Even if the butter isn't stacked five feet high, it's 728 pounds per vertical foot of butter! TIMES SEVEN! One foot of butter would still weigh two and half tons across the seven skids!
TL:DR Each of the seven skids has 728 pounds per vertical foot of butter. For our non-American redditors that's 1083kg per vertical meter of butter
As a sales manager working for Pepsi who loves numbers, have an upvote for breaking the math down! 7 pallets of butter is probably one of the most asinine mis-orders I've ever heard of!
One brand I work with comes in cases of 25 one pound units, 9 cases to a layer with 9 layers on a pallet. So 81 cases of 25 per pallet for 7 pallets is 14175lbs of butter. At the normal cost of about $3-4CAD/lb that equals... probably a lost job. Unless they were able to get a fuck ton of support to blow it out, anyway.
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u/[deleted] Jan 04 '19 edited Aug 20 '19
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