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Most of the Kirkland brand products are white-label products made for them by companies that sell competing name-brand products. Costco has employees that over
by gamblor956 6y ago
Most of the Kirkland brand products are white-label products made for them by companies that sell competing name-brand products.
Costco has employees that oversee the QC of these white-label products.
- true_religion 6y agoQuality control is basically the differentiator in modern manufacturing. Intels high price chips, and low price chips are often the same chip except the low priced one failed quality control and had some of its circuits turned off.
- LordDragonfang 6y agoThis common process is called binning, in case anyone wants to read more on it. Wikipedia article, as a primer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Product_binning https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Product_binning
- e_y_ 6y agoChip binning is something of a special case. Most of the time, when part of a product fails, you have a useless/unsellable product that needs to be reworked or scrapped.