Posted on 01/18/2006 9:32:09 AM PST by freepatriot32
When you train people to select and purchase on price *only* (please read this carefully), then brand loyalty and quality are defenestrated.
Refresh my memory, what is the difference between Riemann integration and Lesbegue integration again? ;-)
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That says it all. We worked hard to get a WalMart contract and sent them the very best and got paid top dollar for produce...when Sam Walton was alive. Within a year of his death it became a travesty, they did everything they could to cheat you and get it cheaper, they violated PACA laws and pretty much said "what can you do? We're WalMart." We don't even grow those crops anymore.
I still shop there though, LOL, but there is a rumor that the store is going to close because of poor profits.
That mower costs as much as a car and I don't expect to find it at Walmart.
BUMP
About 20 IQ points, in practice.
You're normally not that unhelpful.
Off to Google and Wikipedia, then.
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Sorry. It's really hard to explain. Basically, Lebesgue integration is far more general than Riemann integration. In Riemann, you are always approximating areas with rectangles. (Bottom line: that's pretty much all Riemann does.) Lebesgue uses measure spaces (sigma-algebras, if you know the term). It's very hard and I haven't dealt with it in years. I could refresh myself if need be.
This is FreeRepublic. I didn't realize you actually wanted an answer!
Maybe you'd find it quaintly amusing.
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They talk like price/position is something new instead of what they teach first year Business majors.
Yeah, Jim Weir, former CEO of Simplicity, is a moron.
Are you a CEO? Or are you dumber than Jim Weir?
He may, on the other hand, have cashed out for umpty-ump million dollars and a nice stock portfolio. Not everyone wants to run a company forever. I bet now he takes the occasional vacation.
We do. Thousands and thousands of them. A ten trillion dollar economy doesn't come about by only one Wier.
Some distribute to Wal-Mart because it makes sense. Some don't distribute to Wal-Mart because it doesn't make sense. Depends on the product and the target market.
I'm a professional mathematician.
It looks very nice, especially to someone who knows a little bit of it but has forgotten.
My BIL bought a Snapper walk behind mower when he moved to the burbs in 1976. IIRC he had the engine overhauled after about 10-12 years and it was later replaced with a new engine. But the rest of the machine lasted until a couple of years ago when the deck finally rusted to the point where it wouldn't support the engine. If my BIL had cleaned the wet clippings off the bottom of the deck each time after mowing like the owner's manual said to do it probably would have lasted longer than he will.
If I may ask, in business, or academia?
Academia for now.
But, of course, it's all about me, isn't it?
'Course, it really doesn't matter. You call it the Laffer Curve and spend weeks and weeks trying to understand it. I call it a quadratic equation and yawn.
You seem bright, even accounting for your willingness to say so yourself. Being as bright as you are, you might try building a business. Why settle for a professor's retirement after all?
I'm guessing you're way ahead of me in thinking along those lines, yes?
Too boring. Too mundane.
I don't like to play in the muck. Every time I have to shake hands, negotiate deals, figure out how to get around taxes, I view it as wasting my time.
I'm an idea man, as it were. And it's clear to me that either Weir is playing to a crowd or hasn't figured out how to play in the environment in which he finds himself.
But, seriously, it's not about me.
To call a man a moron for his business decision when you yourself are not even employed in the private sector, let alone a businessman yourself, looks a great deal like hubris.
Of course, it may well be something else entirely, and I'm glad to give you the benefit of the doubt. Still, a man of your intelligence should understand how to appear somewhat less...graceless is I suppose as good a word as any.
If it even matters to you what we proles think anyhow...
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