alt Hacker NewsWouldn't it be cheaper to only produce 500 items, instead of producing 1k, and throwing half of it away?
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SpicyLemonZest • yesterday at 4:20 PM
1k in this example would be the minimum needed to make it worth the static cost of setting up and tearing down the production run.
Many years ago I worked in the printing industry. F.ex. a client wants 100 products of something (e.g. posters or flyers), usually it was more cost effective to produce a 1000 (or more) and then throw away 900 the client didn't need. Obviously a huge waste of material.