Ah, that makes a bit more sense. I went back and got the ending by sacrificing 3 of my guys for food and resources right at the start and then I got lucky with getting 5 more shops that run so I would have probably been able to make it without the sacrifice in hindsight. Great game - I liked your writing -the ending is cool, another nice twice. Although I do wonder how my guy with just a head+torso in the end was able to drive and repair the car, haha.
Also found a wee bug when restarting the game after losing during the broken down car event because of no spare parts, the car doesn't get repaired between runs - solved with a refresh of the webpage.