Re: Hills tested ingredients

shore@xxxxxxxxx (Melinda Shore) wrote in news:f0dj0p$34k$1
@panix2.panix.com:

I think there are a couple of things: 1) I have no idea what
the price elasticity is in dog food ingredients but that's
going to be a factor, and 2) if you've got two things
selling for the same price and one of them is of higher
quality (for whatever value of "quality") there's a tendency
to favor that one, which gets back to the question of price
elasticity. Look at Walmart, which has the thinnest of
thinny-thin-thin margins but makes a fortune by selling in
huge volume.

Also, I'm pretty sure the thing about using melamine (or
whatever) to look like there's more protein than is really
there is still just a conjecture, in any event.

Yes, yes, yes, and yes. I just don't think that it does anyone any
favors to get hysterical (guilty!) or pissy. I'm trying my
damnedest to try and be as objective as I can about the whole mess,
and to be careful where I point fingers.

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Shelly
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The bored people are those who are consuming much and producing
nothing.
-- William Ralph Inge
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