Another example of what I'm driving at is buying 2X4 studs at Home Depot. In NorCal I take my cart, pick thru the stacks and select the nice straight
boards. Everybody else is doing the same. In the back of the parking lot are stacks of twisted studs no one bought and I'm quite certain that the
price of the studs take this into account. In Ensenada, I cannot select my boards, the clerks do that for me and if I want 10, I get 10 in the order
they are on the selves - no culling allowed. When I ask why I can't get the boards myself, they tell me that their bosses don't want the customers
picking the good boards and leaving the bad ones. The twisted boards cost exactly the same as the straight ones.
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