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From: Eero Ahonen
Subject: Re: Black Friday - an appropriate appellation
Date: 1 Dec 2008 12:54:48
Message: <493424e8@news.povray.org>
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Invisible wrote:
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> Oh, that's cute.
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> On the other hand, our local Tesco *never* seems to have any bread left
> on sale. Every single time I go there, only a couple of loaves left. Why?
They order an amount they think will last for one day. Fresh bread won't
sell on another day, so every unselled bread is a loss.
-Aero
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>> On the other hand, our local Tesco *never* seems to have any bread left
>> on sale. Every single time I go there, only a couple of loaves left. Why?
>
> They order an amount they think will last for one day. Fresh bread won't
> sell on another day, so every unselled bread is a loss.
And every customer who walks in to buy bread but can't is also a loss.
--
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>> ...and now I'm wondering in what way Phil Cook v2 is an improvement on
>> the old v1 model... ;-)
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> More room in the boot.
Ah. So you're good at carrying stuff? :-D
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>> Why are you v8?
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> Because he's not firing on all cylinders :)
Hmm. Cute.
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On Mon, 01 Dec 2008 19:54:44 +0200, Eero Ahonen wrote:
> They order an amount they think will last for one day. Fresh bread won't
> sell on another day, so every unselled bread is a loss.
At least it won't sell for the same price as fresh bread on day 2. But
there are uses for stale bread (as opposed to spoiled, which nobody
should buy or sell). For example, if you want to make breadcrumbs for
breading, stale bread tends to work better (though I've had success with
very lightly toasting 'fresher' bread and then throwing it in the food
processor).
Jim
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jim Henderson [mailto:nos### [at] nospam com]
> However, that said, the reports I saw confirmed that the pregnant lady
> did not miscarry, that this was misreported in earlier reports.
That's funny, the earlier reports I saw said that she didn't miscarry, and
the later reports said that she did.
<googles>
Ah, ok, it seems that reports of her miscarriage were unfounded.
...Ben Chambers
www.pacificwebguy.com
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Orchid XP v8 wrote:
>>> On the other hand, our local Tesco *never* seems to have any bread left
>>> on sale. Every single time I go there, only a couple of loaves left.
>>> Why?
>>
>> They order an amount they think will last for one day. Fresh bread won't
>> sell on another day, so every unselled bread is a loss.
>
> And every customer who walks in to buy bread but can't is also a loss.
>
Yes, but that can't be seen on the printed selling reports, 'cause the
system can't know if you would've bought bread if it was available.
Instead of that it's easy to print "bought 20 breads, sold 18".
Yes, they should learn from that kind of mistakes, but...
-Aero
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Eero Ahonen [mailto:aer### [at] removethiszbxtnetinvalid]
> Yes, but that can't be seen on the printed selling reports, 'cause the
> system can't know if you would've bought bread if it was available.
> Instead of that it's easy to print "bought 20 breads, sold 18".
>
> Yes, they should learn from that kind of mistakes, but...
But they CAN print "Bought 20, sold 20." When they see something like
that, they usually try to buy more.
...Ben Chambers
www.pacificwebguy.com
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Chambers wrote:
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> But they CAN print "Bought 20, sold 20." When they see something like
> that, they usually try to buy more.
Possibly depending on the time the last ones were sold. If the breads
come in bunch of 5 or 10, would it be reasonable to buy 25 or 30 to sell
21 of them. Would that one happy customer profit those 4 or 9 breads out.
And even after all the thinking estimating the future is not easy. One
could see that normal day sells 17 breads and order 20, but some days
mr. Visible comes and buys 6 of them, making total to 23.
> ...Ben Chambers
> www.pacificwebguy.com
-Aero
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And lo On Tue, 02 Dec 2008 16:10:34 -0000, Eero Ahonen
<aer### [at] removethiszbxtnetinvalid> did spake thusly:
> Chambers wrote:
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>> But they CAN print "Bought 20, sold 20." When they see something like
>> that, they usually try to buy more.
>
> Possibly depending on the time the last ones were sold. If the breads
> come in bunch of 5 or 10, would it be reasonable to buy 25 or 30 to sell
> 21 of them. Would that one happy customer profit those 4 or 9 breads out.
>
> And even after all the thinking estimating the future is not easy. One
> could see that normal day sells 17 breads and order 20, but some days
> mr. Visible comes and buys 6 of them, making total to 23.
The paradox is when you ask for something and they tell you there's no
demand for it.
The annoyance is when you ask for something they've obviously sold out of
and are told that they've been asked that several times already.
The super annoyance is having the previous annoyance repeated week after
week.
--
Phil Cook
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I once tried to be apathetic, but I just couldn't be bothered
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