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If I ran a store with a 10 digit inventory of tools and advertised that, but refused to offer more than a tiny fraction of them because it was too hard to offer

by _jal 4y ago

If I ran a store with a 10 digit inventory of tools and advertised that, but refused to offer more than a tiny fraction of them because it was too hard to offer more, what do you call that?

AlbertCory 4y ago
If you ran a store, you probably would not have a billion items in your inventory, and if you did, not all of them would really be available at any one time. And most likely your web page wouldn't be able to show them all, either.
- butterNaN 4y ago
  See: Metaphors
- deleted 4y ago
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- AlbertCory 4y ago
  The replies on this thread illustrate why "bike shedding" is an evergreen [1]. Maybe they leave that in the results so people will focus on trivia, instead of antitrust and other issues that actually matter. "Look! Over there! They're claiming there are 9 billion answers and you can't see them all." Clever. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_triviality https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_triviality
- Dylan16807 4y ago
  I think you're failing to respond to the strongest version of what someone is saying... Home depot has roughly 36000 items stocked in a store. Try using that number for _jal's argument.
summerlight 4y ago
Well... "running an offline store 101"? In stores based on modern supply chain you usually don't always have gazillions of shelves to display every single items you have so there are multiple tiers of storage from super sized warehouses to small local storage.
arccy 4y ago
if you have a 10 digit number of screwdrivers and somebody asked for "screwdrivers", do you bring the entire warehouse to them or do you ask them to be more specific in what they want?
- Dylan16807 4y ago
  "Here's the first 20 inches of the screwdriver isle." "Can I keep going?" "No. You need to be more specific, no browsing more than a few dozen models at a time."

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If I ran a store with a 10 digit inventory of tools and advertised that, but refused to offer more than a tiny fraction of them because it was too hard to offer

by _jal 4y ago

If I ran a store with a 10 digit inventory of tools and advertised that, but refused to offer more than a tiny fraction of them because it was too hard to offer more, what do you call that?

AlbertCory 4y ago
If you ran a store, you probably would not have a billion items in your inventory, and if you did, not all of them would really be available at any one time. And most likely your web page wouldn't be able to show them all, either.
- butterNaN 4y ago
  See: Metaphors
- deleted 4y ago
  [deleted]
- AlbertCory 4y ago
  The replies on this thread illustrate why "bike shedding" is an evergreen [1]. Maybe they leave that in the results so people will focus on trivia, instead of antitrust and other issues that actually matter. "Look! Over there! They're claiming there are 9 billion answers and you can't see them all." Clever. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_triviality https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_triviality
- Dylan16807 4y ago
  I think you're failing to respond to the strongest version of what someone is saying... Home depot has roughly 36000 items stocked in a store. Try using that number for _jal's argument.
summerlight 4y ago
Well... "running an offline store 101"? In stores based on modern supply chain you usually don't always have gazillions of shelves to display every single items you have so there are multiple tiers of storage from super sized warehouses to small local storage.
arccy 4y ago
if you have a 10 digit number of screwdrivers and somebody asked for "screwdrivers", do you bring the entire warehouse to them or do you ask them to be more specific in what they want?
- Dylan16807 4y ago
  "Here's the first 20 inches of the screwdriver isle." "Can I keep going?" "No. You need to be more specific, no browsing more than a few dozen models at a time."