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Old 02-19-2010, 07:23 PM   #19 (permalink)
Peter7307
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Originally Posted by wagonman76 View Post
The JIT inventory thing drives me nuts. Nobody wants to stock anything. If you're going to use something anyway and it's not perishable, keep a supply and top off when you can get a deal on it, and have it shipped slow and cheap. Save yourself some money. No, instead they wait till crunch time, then pay expediting fees, next day shipping, and it ends up costing more in shipping than for the actual item. And they do it every time.
Totally agree 100 and 1%.
Drives me nuts as well.
Bad enough they get it wrong in the first place but to do it repeatedly is the really frustrating part.

Pete.
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