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From: vena...@faculty.coe.wvu.edu (Wallace Venable)
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1993 17:51:39 GMT
Local: Fri 20 Aug 1993 18:51
Subject: Re: Supermarkets, empty shelves and Moscow Syndrome
In article <23225.9308171...@hades.dcs.napier.ac.uk> lss...@department-computer-studies.napier.ac.uk (Craig Cockburn) writes:
> Ever been to a big supermarket and got fed up because they were out American stores certainly have shelves full of produce, but that > of stock of something (usually bread, fruit or vegetables) ? > This running out of items seems to be a peculiarly British phenomenon. > This week when I went, there were no pitta breads for the third does not equate to having generous quantities of high quality produce. The question of "quality" is an important one. I had forgotten how BAD our supermarket tomatoes were until our own started to ripen in the garden. One reason the supermarket shelves can be kept full is that we will buy produce which "looks good" and ships and keeps well, but which has no taste. There was a national piece in the papers this week saying that few people think the current peaches are worth buying. Actually, in the US, customer supremecy is defined in terms of tonnage. If only a modest percentage of customers like a certain line, the store will probably drop it. There are also regional assumptions about product popularity. In our town, you can rarely find "dark" chocolate. We must live in a "milk" chocolate marketing area. You must Sign in before you can post messages.
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