61–70 of 92 posts
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Shrinkage is shoplifting.
I believe shrinkage is most commonly used by retailers to mean theft by employees. Shoplifting is customer theft.
(I worked at a grocery store for four years, the same company my dad has worked at since 1977)
Earlier quoted context omitted.
You can link directly to 4:10 in the video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkqBbr7Ewsw&t=4m10s
Holy shit that's brilliant. I admittedly haven't been to Youtube in forever, but that actually got me to click, if only to find out how (other than altering the querystring by hand) you did it. I still didn't see how to do it though. Is that a logged-in option perhaps or am I just missing something?
"Copy video URL at current time"
That's all there is too it :-)
I'm usually pretty disappointed, because on a failed opening attempt I end up crushing those chips, and then feel like I didn't really get my money's worth.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Clamshell packaging was made for retail shelves. To prevent shrinkage and increase product visibility, it was designed to be transparent while simultaneously difficult to open. The explosion of Amazon and other online retailers made the advantages of clamshell packaging moot. However if you are a manufacturer, it may not be economically feasible to produce two different types of packaging for different retailers so l…
> To prevent shrinkage and increase product visibility, Which is also a feature to discourage shoplifting.
"The point here is that while technical options exist to prevent premature opening of the bag, such as reducing the initial air pressure in the bag, attempting to add this to the existing processing equipment would be a nightmare. So it was necessary to increase the seal strength." You could also reduce the air pressure in the factory , e.g. by building it in one of the aforementioned high-altitude regions.
And/or heat up the air filling the bag. As air cools, the volume decreases. The right solution would be to squeeze to depress the bag a bit as it's sealed. Increasing the seal strength is a quick and dirty hack, but as we've all learned too well from software, the right solutions often got trumped by quick and dirty hacks. The customers just have to live with the consequence.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Biodegradable... eventually. edit: So I looked it up and it should only take 14 weeks in an active compost pile. I wonder if anyone has ever tested it?
Almost no change after 25 weeks in a home compost pile: http://cockeyed.com/science/compost_chips/sunchips.php
Sunchips specifies 14 weeks in a hot and active compost. A new compost pile (like in the experiment) would not be very active compared to an old one, especially since he didn't add any worms to it but he did get the water and turning right. He also mentions that it was cold and rainy in the weeks after he started his compost. An old compost would shrug this off but it would have a negative effect on a newly started compost.
In this case, it's a new adhesive. But how was that developed? What makes the new adhesive better suited to high-pressure applications while keeping the temperature and time constant? Inquiring geeks want to know!
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Holy shit that's brilliant. I admittedly haven't been to Youtube in forever, but that actually got me to click, if only to find out how (other than altering the querystring by hand) you did it. I still didn't see how to do it though. Is that a logged-in option perhaps or am I just missing something?
When you are at the time you want, right click on the video, and copy the link with the time. "Copy video URL at current time" That's all there is too it :-)