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themp
Supporter
Username: Themp
Post Number: 2404
Registered: 12-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 3, 2006 - 2:29 pm: |     |
http://www.slate.com/id/2132576/?nav=mpp |
blackcat
Citizen
Username: Blackcat
Post Number: 447
Registered: 6-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 4, 2006 - 2:07 pm: | |
It is 100% absolutely true. What they didn't add in the article were the customers that "know" how much things cost to make and chastise you for daring to charge a decent price with the remark " I know you have to pay the rent but..."
I have had more that my share... |
blackcat
Citizen
Username: Blackcat
Post Number: 448
Registered: 6-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 4, 2006 - 2:09 pm: | |
I can also add to the article the customer that "knows" how much things cost to make but chastise you for charging a fair price with the kind remark "I know you have to pay the rent but..." I had my share of those people... |
slipknot (slippy)
Citizen
Username: Zotts
Post Number: 197
Registered: 7-2004
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 4, 2006 - 2:37 pm: | |
You know what annoys me about that attitude, if you don't want to pay the price make it yourself.
Cheap bastards. |
blackcat
Citizen
Username: Blackcat
Post Number: 451
Registered: 6-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 4, 2006 - 4:36 pm: | |
And that's why I got out of it |
extuscan
Citizen
Username: Extuscan
Post Number: 577
Registered: 6-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 4, 2006 - 6:28 pm: | |
It never ceases to amaze me how cheap some consumer products are. Store-Brand Macaroni and Cheese is one of them. These sometimes go on sale here, 5 for $1. Now think for a moment, what goes into a box of Mac and Cheese.
First the box. You have to wait 50+ years for a tree to grow, so you can chop it down, drag it out of the woods, and process it into paperboard.
Second you have to dig up an entire mountain to make the aluminum foil for the cheese-powder.
Then you have to grow the hay to feed the cow, divert a river to irrigate the field, milk the cow, process the milk into cheese, and then somehow powderize it.
Then you have to grow the wheat to mill into flour to make into macaroni.
Then this stuff has to be packed into larger boxes still, trucked across the country, cut open and placed a shelf. Once you throw it on the register, it again has to be individually moved across the scanner, and bagged.
All this for twenty cents? Even when they are not on sale they are no more than 50 cents!
I guess her croissants just didn't have the same economy of scale that my macaroni does.
-John |
Rastro
Citizen
Username: Rastro
Post Number: 2118
Registered: 5-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, January 5, 2006 - 10:59 am: | |
When you make 50 million boxes of mac and processed cheese food product per dday, you do get conomies of scale that cannot be matched. And it's store brand, so it might also be the leftovers that didn't quite meet Kraft's "strict quality control standards." |
Tom Reingold
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Username: Noglider
Post Number: 11772
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, January 5, 2006 - 3:47 pm: | |
And making comparisons like that are what lead people to think finer things should be similarly priced.
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GOP Man
Citizen
Username: Headsup
Post Number: 249
Registered: 5-2005
| | Posted on Thursday, January 5, 2006 - 4:45 pm: | |
who gives a crap that some place where liberals go to sip latte went out of business? you can't provide a good or service that brings in enough to pay the rent? tough. you go out of business. it's the market at work, and things work out as they should. |
monster
Supporter
Username: Monster
Post Number: 1832
Registered: 7-2002
| | Posted on Thursday, January 5, 2006 - 7:01 pm: | |
I like mac-n-cheese, make my own with real cheese powder (not the fake cheese powder).
I like pie, but I hardly ever make my own, come to think of it, I don't buy pie enough....
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Rastro
Citizen
Username: Rastro
Post Number: 2141
Registered: 5-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, January 5, 2006 - 11:45 pm: | |
Quote:real cheese powder
You're kidding, right? Is there really real powdered cheese?
But I like pie too! Hmm... apple pie... boston creme pie... Mmmmmmmmm |
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