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Hate cherry pickersRising food prices bring out the cherry pickers - grocery shoppers who purchase deeply discounted items and nothing else in the store. Have you noticed the trend? Do cherry pickers lower retail profits? 
University of Buffalo Associate Professor of Marketing Debu Talukdar studied several variations of cherry picking and surprisingly they found even extreme cherry pickers barely affected profits. The concern is overblown he writes because even though they are visable and annoying to checkers and management, cherry pickers make up only 1.2 percent of grocery customers. His 2007 research showed "they only reduce profits less than one percent." The reason they continue is obvious: extreme cherry pickers who visited several stores save a lot more money (76 percent of potential savings) than store-loyal shoppers not actively searching for promotions (54 percent of potential savings).  There's no point in trying to get broadband 5 miles from an exchange up a farm track with aluminium cables, it also plays up when cable joints get a bit iffy and line capacitance changes (acts as a filter - the phone works but not broadband) and maybe the biggest drawback -- and it seems to apply to just about all ISP's -- the complete and utter inability of middle management to locate their fundamental orifices using military spec GPS and just play point-scoring off each other. ----------------------- altheakim
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