Authored by: jesse on Friday, August 31 2012 @ 02:30 AM EDT |
All the Canadian maple syrup was stolen...
To be converted to gold.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: cassini2006 on Friday, August 31 2012 @ 08:59 AM EDT |
How do you steal a warehouse sized quantity of something?
"One
lunch box at a time."
On a daily basis, no one notices a little
bit of something missing. As such, employees can remove a small quantity of a
slow moving product out of a warehouse a little bit at a time. The theft is
only noticed after a few years when accounting does an inventory.
If the
theft occurs at production, and before the finished goods warehouse, then often
the problem is not employee theft. Production employees are often rewarded for
increased production. As such, they pad the production by a few percent every
day. After a few months, accounting discovers a warehouse sized volume of
product is "missing". Answer: it was never produced.
Both problems occur at
many different companies, every day. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, August 31 2012 @ 11:35 AM EDT |
Could be an inside job. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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- Darn maple trees - Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, August 31 2012 @ 03:15 PM EDT
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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, August 31 2012 @ 07:17 PM EDT |
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Authored by: Tufty on Friday, August 31 2012 @ 09:09 PM EDT |
I wonder if the thieves will come to a sticky end?
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Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, September 03 2012 @ 01:13 AM EDT |
Why exactly does Canada need to stockpile syrup? To find out, I
called up Michael Farrell, an extension associate at Cornell University's
College of Agricultural and Life Sciences, and an expert in all things
maple.
"We think of it as a little cottage industry here in the states," he
told me. "But up there [syrup is] a big industry that's responsible for a lot of
people's livelihoods."
[...]
"If you are trying to develop a market for
something, you don't want to create a demand and not be able to supply it,"
Farrell said.
The reserve makes sure there's always enough syrup for the
market. As Farrell explained, each producer sells its harvest in bulk to the
federation -- a government-sanctioned cooperative -- which turns around and
deals it to bulk buyers. When production is high, the federation siphons a
portion off to store in steel drums for future use.
Not long ago, Farrell
said, the maple industry found out just what kind of calamity could ensue when
if stockpile ran out.
Jordan Weissmann, The Atlantic[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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