Semi-Daily Journal Archive

The Blogspot archive of the weblog of J. Bradford DeLong, Professor of Economics and Chair of the PEIS major at U.C. Berkeley, a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, and former Deputy Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Treasury.

Friday, December 16, 2005

Why doesn't Land's End care enough about saving money to not send three copies of its Christmas catalog to one single-famly house? Removing redundant rows in the database table should be straightforward...

In other junk mail news, we congratulate PetMeds on successfully cross-referencing the name of America's Silliest DogTM with our first names. We acknowledge that we do give her heartworm prevention and tick repellent. The answer to why we don't also give her glucosamine is that we do--but that PetMeds' glucosamine price does not match Target's price for human-quality glucosamine.

Arbitrage!

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