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Alex[_4_]

Keyser Söze wrote:
On 6/25/15 3:37 PM, wrote:
On Thu, 25 Jun 2015 15:28:33 -0400, Wayne.B
wrote:

On Thu, 25 Jun 2015 12:13:36 -0700 (PDT), Tim
wrote:

Greg, that's also true with Diabetic readers, they'll practically
give you the tester then hold you up on the strips!

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Gilette Razors practically wrote the book on that business model.

I saw an article in the WSJ the other day saying the internet is
taking a bite out of that business.

I spent a pre-college summer working as a truck loader at the Shick
razor company in Milford, Connecticut. We used forklifts and our arms,
legs and backs to pack 40 and 35-foot trailers with goods made in the
factory (blades), made elsewhere and assembled in the factory, et
cetera. The pay was good and the factory was properly and safely
operated. Unusual benefit: a daily 15-20 minute "shave break" to test
product. I don't recall whether the women who worked in the factory
got a similar break to shave their legs. We could also buy packs of
injector blades for 5 cents a pack, a price that probably eliminated
pilfering. I think they were selling for $2 a pack at the stores. I
bought at least several dollars worth of packs a week to take back to
college, where I resold them for a $1 a pack.

The next summer, I got a job loading trucks at Hulls Export Beer in
New Haven. Much harder work, paid better, outdoor loading dock,
and...freebie beer...significant for an underaged college student.

Also had a job one summer at Bigelow Boiler in New Haven, at a factory
whose skeleton remains. Learned how to weld, and spent my days inside
used boilers, stripping out their parts and making repairs to the
tubes. I kept up with apprenticeship classes after that summer when I
could and eventually passed a journeyman welder's exam.

My last summer of college before graduation, I got a white collar job
at The Kansas City Star.

Wow. All of that over a new razor blade business model! How did that
evolve into your resume?