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"Is the shop owner around?" "Yes" "Can you ask him the name of the company that provides these?" "Sure [...] it's called XYZ" "Thanks" ^ That's about how l
by degenerate 8y ago
"Is the shop owner around?"
"Yes"
"Can you ask him the name of the company that provides these?"
"Sure [...] it's called XYZ"
"Thanks"
^ That's about how long this useless story needed to be. The author ran around town bothering dozens of cashiers that don't do the purchasing.
- amelius 8y ago> "Can you ask him the name of the company that provides these?" "Sorry, we keep our suppliers secret. It's strategic information."
- hammock 8y agoNo such business does this.
- criddell 8y agoBusinesses that do white / private label goods often don't want to say who the original manufacturer is. For example, my daughter has a Cyberpower PC gaming laptop and it took some digging, but we found the original Chinese manufacturer and from there were able to track down drivers and other things.
- hammock 8y ago"Such business." A local deli, on the rare possibility that they sell their own white-labeled baked good, would probably tell you where it came from anyway. The fig bar in question was not a white labeled or private label good anyway. But if you asked the guy where the greek salad, potato salad and pasta salad come from he would tell you. A retailer is also different than a direct seller/manufacturer (your example).
- PhasmaFelis 8y agoI love how he bothered cashiers for months before it occurred to him to pick one up and look at the label.
- sandebert 8y agoThe writer is a she.