Ahhh, makes me appreciate our little local hardware store. Where you can bring in half of a bent rusty screw and some old guy (Pops Wendell, probably) yells out from the back “Looks like a two inch MacAlpine Leftie from the '30s!”. And then the high school summer help kid descends the rickety nearly-vertical stairs to the sub-basement and brings you an identical pre-rusted 1932 MacAlpine Leftie. “That’ll be a quarter.”
A 4 1/4 x 6 inch cove sanitary tile would be no trouble, except “But yer gonna have to take an unsanitary one!” – Pops Wendell (slaps knee)
Dafuq? If what I wanted to buy was one ceramic tile, I would not be at all happy to lose “only” $20 on the deal.
And if I wanted the tile in a particular type and size that the supplier advertised for sale, and they sent me a tile that was in an entirely different size category that they also advertised for sale, and then tried to tell me that they don’t actually distinguish between those two size categories so the size distinction stated in their advertising is essentially meaningless, I’d be rather pissed off about it whether it cost me $20 or 20 cents.
If they can’t actually guarantee the difference between a 4" tile and a 4.25" tile, then they should not be advertising 4" tiles and 4.25" tiles as different sizes.
If an employee scans one carton as on piece at checkout, it falls under shrinkage as well, for example. If the pieces come in cartons of 64 pieces, it would leave you physically short 63 of them. That kind of thing is usually caught during a cycle count, then someone like me researches the variance and makes a systematic adjustment so that the physical matches the system.
We call it “shrink”, and missred is correct - it’s the difference between what the computer says is on hand and what is actually present, regardless of the cause. Our shorthand for it is “book and physical”.
“I was in the POOL!”
Is that the one that struggles against the Move On Out, Shit Eater system?
Dafuq? If what I wanted to buy was one ceramic tile, I would not be at all happy to lose “only” $20 on the deal.
