A Day Full of Stupid...

[equusmaximus]

     I don't know if people just turn off their brains on Friday, or what happened.  Maybe it's just the extreme cold; we're seeing temperatures in the -30's, with the wind-chill taking it down into the -40's.   Once you reach that level, it doesn't really matter if you're dealing in Celcius or Fahrenheit, it's dang cold!!!  It was a mere +16°c in

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[heavens_steed]

"God must love stupid people. He made so many of them." :P

[ponyguy]

I've never seen a shed that was truly mouse-proof. Just the fact that they have a door (unless it has a hermetic seal like a refrigerator!) Heavy steel doesn't matter, but tight seams do. A mouse can squeeze through a 6mm gap. Better to get some metal trash cans to put the feed in, even inside a shed. If the feed stays dry, it won't spoil. Sounds like a call to the Co-Op's headquarters is in order. Ask them how many weeks they expect horses in Shaunavon to go without eating.

More likely the local Co-Op didn't even order it. We've got a Tractor Supply down here that seems to be chronically out of stock on everything, but the one 40 miles away in Temple is AMPLY stocked. The only difference is, the local one depends on the computerized inventory control system to tell them when to order, and it seems to be chronically wrong (and has no predictive ability whatsoever, such as stocking grass seed when the rains start), and Temple actually CHECKS to see what they're out of.

[equusmaximus]

Fortunately, I have plenty of hay... The horses don't need the crunchies so much, but they expect them as that's been their routine forever and ever amen... Plus, the 12% feed has other minerals and vitamins and such mixed in with it, that they don't get from plain hay.

The problem with POS systems, as you point out, is that they're useless if people don't manually confirm the stock levels. Plus, I constantly see lazy clerks not bothering to differentiate between similar, but different products. If, for example, I buy 2 frozen pizzas: One is Hawaiian, the other is Canadian. They'll ring them both through as the same product so that they don't have to scan them individually. Now the computerized inventory system thinks it has less of one, and more of the other, than it really has. I see this all the time, in just about every store I go to, and it drives me crazy. They either don't know how the system works, or they just don't care. I suspect it's more the latter

[centauress]

Generally clerks know what is and isn't important to keep track of. Things that expire more quickly, like food, are less important than things which sit on the shelf for months.

If you're really curious, strike up a conversation about it. I know that at my local stores there is someone to take inventories of these things, and they're supposed to throw away so much that minor changes like ringing one for the other won't matter.

Of course, if you want to know which ones go off faster and which ones sell better, you'll want to keep track. But generally, stores don't.

Lastly, I'd suggest getting some vittles vaults: They're big containers with screw-down lids. They'll keep out (or in) even the smallest of bugs. We use those for our flour and spices, even though they're for pet food.

[calzephyr77]

Sounds like a case of the Fridays swept the town!