Re:Retailers will soon have only about 7 weeks of full inven...
by selimthegrim on Wednesday April 30, 2025 @10:56PM
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Isn’t that Black and Decker (TM)
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Re:Retailers will soon have only about 7 weeks of full inven...
by WorldMaker on Thursday May 01, 2025 @11:16AM
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The market already tore Sears apart. Black and Decker is a zombie brand that continues in our IP-focused globalized JIT retail wasteland that certainly won't be on shelves "7 weeks from now". (Though maybe your grandmother's Black & Decker still works long past its lifetime guarantee and we'll be fighting to find the last of those.)
Also, I believe the above had an additional layer of an economics joke: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black%E2%80%93Scholes_model
Re:Retailers will soon have only about 7 weeks of full inven...
by giardini on Thursday May 01, 2025 @11:46AM
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The tip fell off my old Black and Decker spear years ago. Shoddy materials.
And my (formerly) trusty Black-Scholes model, based on the normal distribution, had to be replaced with a fat-tailed distribution model after the financial meltdown. Shoddy materials.
Re:Retailers will soon have only about 7 weeks of full inven...
by selimthegrim on Friday May 02, 2025 @12:52AM
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I just think of the Indiana Jones scene where the monkey ends up being poisoned.