Dan Abel wrote:
> In article >,
> blake murphy > wrote:
>
>
>> giant foods (md) had a good heinz 57 clone, then both it and the genuine
>> article disappeared for about a year. then recently heinz was back, but
>> not the clone. i swear i'll never figure out how they make some decisions.
>
> It's pretty simple, really. The computer program that prints the
> inventory wanted to put 50 items on each page, but the page only had
> room for 45 items, once they added the names of the CEO and all the
> board members to every page, so they had to drop the last five items on
> each page to make room. That makes sense, doesn't it?
>
LOL, as much as anything, eh?
seriously though, isn't one of the complaints against Walmart is that it
only stocks the top 5-7 items in any catagory? This in turn is
encouraging the boring, homogenation of the US marketplace.