It's the modern business model of efficiency. Works great until there's a fire at the factory and we get caught holding the bag. It would be great if they would make less at each of more factories but then cost would go up and we don't want to cut into these companies' multi-billions of profit, do we?
“An engineer explained to us that hundreds of ear impressions were gathered in the name of research, and while each one obviously boasted its own unique shape and size, one single characteristic remained uniform across the board: the entrance into the ear canal is not a perfect circle, it's an oval.”
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Once again, the consumer picks up the tab as the suppliers have all their (battery) eggs in the one basket!
Does anyone else find it strange that the loss of one factory could cause such significant price changes?
It's the modern business model of efficiency. Works great until there's a fire at the factory and we get caught holding the bag. It would be great if they would make less at each of more factories but then cost would go up and we don't want to cut into these companies' multi-billions of profit, do we?
Yeh, where's the business continuity plan on that one?