mercedo's Journal: Consideration

We are selling two different eels. One is 30 cm long, 7 cm width and the price is $7. The other one is 25 cm long, 5 cm width and the price is $10.

The only difference is one is made in China and the other is domestic made. I think the taste is completely the same but Japanese people prefer buying domestic ones, not imported ones.

Strangely enough the case of domestic eels is bigger and tough, that of imported eels is smaller and fragile, so there are a lot of room around the domestic eel in a case while almost no room can be found inside the case of imported eels. I thought it strange and I proposed my manager to change the cases being used by each eel.

'Imported eels are bigger so we ought to use bigger and tougher cases for them. Domestic ones are smaller and we ought to use smaller cases.' My manager's explanation was this. 'It's according to their prices, not their size.'

Of course I don't believe such an excuse. I think domestic eels are smaller but more expensive so we need to show that they are more splendid by using a luxury case, I think that's all.

We had a similar silliness here

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One of the local factories here is owned by Haagen Dazs [haagen-dazs.com] (we produce a lot of milk; it makes sense to have the ice-cream factory near the milk producers.) Anyway, Haagen Dazs charges a lot a money for their ice cream products. The premium price is for an exceptionally rich ice cream. One of the products they sell are ice-cream-bars-on-a-stick. [haagen-dazs.com]

Traditionally, children get this type of treat from low-cost vendors who drive around in refrigerated trucks. The trucks play music to announce their arrival in a nei

Re:We had a similar silliness here

[mercedo]

Indeed almost all products are suffered from this inequilibrium. Ths cases are exceptionally larger than their contents. I guess in some cases only 60% of area in boxes, cases are occupied by their contents.

Aside from that, I feel like eating an ice cream bar on a stick, so I rush into the convenience store to buy this product.