Text 9391, 75 rader
Skriven 2014-01-30 23:19:11 av Nancy Backus (1:261/1381.0)
   Kommentar till text 9266 av MICHAEL LOO (1:123/140)
Ärende: Re: computiness 108
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-=> Quoting MICHAEL LOO to NANCY BACKUS on 29 Jan 14  03:24:00 <=-

 ML>> I am not under the illusion that our purchases would have any
 ML>> significant effect on the store's stocking patterns.
 NB>> They claim that their computer tracks sales, and that future buying is
 NB>> based on that... or at least someone has made that claim... ;)  So a
 NB>> single person's purchase might not have a lot of effect, but it would
 NB>> weigh into it...  :)
 ML> Not mine, which beyond the run of airline tickets and
 ML> wine and beer are pretty haphazard.

That could make boycotts rather ineffective, too, of course... ;) 
I have come to the conclusion, in any case, that my buying doesn't seem
to make much matter, since I'm not much of a major purchaser of
things... and just when I get hooked on something at the grocery store,
it gets discontinued, so obviously I wasn't buying enough of it... (G)

 ML> So I hear that the Amazonians are figuring out a way
 ML> of shipping your purchases before you buy them. I fear
 ML> and sort of hope people will figure out that to their
 ML> advantage, so they don't actually buy anything: I guess
 ML> that would work for a limited time only, though.

There would be some sort of catch in it anyway...  :)

 NB>> Wegmans' Just Picked frozen corn tastes pretty much like fresh
 NB>> off the cob... 
 ML> Will note that. On the cob corn is very cost ineffective.

Especially frozen...  :)
 
 NB>> At Wegman's, one would probably just pick up the phone and talk to
 NB>> Danny...  (G)  Actually, I'd guess that even if there were different
 NB>> supply lines, or at least designations for certain percentages of
 NB>> stock, there would also be some policy already in place for just
 NB>> shifting as one had need, and how such would be documented... just
 NB>> like other categories like shrinkage...  :)
 ML> I suppose: that's what computers are for, but as you know
 ML> implementations are always imperfect.

Indeed.

 ML> It would have involved, if I recall, peeling off the rubber
 ML> foot and finding some way in: don't know if it was screws
 ML> or what, but the magnetic media were on their way out and
 ML> my data weren't that incriminating anyway. I guess as I
 ML> was going to toss it anyway (down the apartment chute with
 ML> a satisfying thunk at the bottom), if I had more of the mad
 ML> engineer mentality, I would have looked inside just because.

Probably some sort of weird screws, I'd not be surprised.... I live with
someone that seems to have a bit more of that mad engineer mentality...
although he's not compelled to fix everything, anyway...  ;)

 ML>> minutes after the warranty expired. Luckily I had gotten
 ML>> an extended warranty. Unluckily I don't know where the
 ML>> documents are.
 NB>> If you got an extended warranty, wouldn't the information be in
 NB>> the RS computer...?  Prove your identity, and that be enough for
 NB>> them to honor the warranty...?
 ML> RS used to have one of the more sophisticated customer tracking
 ML> mechanisms, but in recent years I find the clerks more and more
 ML> obtuse - either they are being instructed to be that way, or the
 ML> smart ones have gone and started Web development companies or
 ML> something. 

I have found the clerks to be more obtuse, too, at any rate... I'd be
more likely to put money on the latter...  just can't get good help
nowadays... (of course, they aren't hiring, either...  [g])

ttyl           neb

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