You have to pick out razor blades
You have to hunt down grocery store clerk to unlock blades…………….

( at this point both parties are thinking more or less the same thing of holy Jesus I just had to ask someone to unlock a pack of razor blades on a shelf in a grocery store)

You have to lift your arm up in the air to then grab the razors from the clerk
You have to say thanks you to the clerk
You then…..

Was in Costco the other month and saw a Gillette pack of blades of around 20ish if I remember correctly. And saw they were the triple bladed and then divided the total quantity by the price and Presto! Same as dollar shave club.

I still use dollar shave club.

Wife uses them.

Too easy.

I am considering buying the Gillette pack though, probably higher quality.

Random: just saw that a cargo ship rammed a US Destoryer?

That’s a very interesting article, thank you. I gleamed from the comments section that the EV supercharger stations can be a drama-fest. Give me gasoline any day. I wonder how long it will take Fisker to full re-group and start to produce money losing cars once again!

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Keep your eye on Fisker Cars and their new high capacity graphene capacitors. This is a car which can be charged in NINE MINUTES. Range of 400 miles.

https://cleantechnica.com/2017/06/13/stunning-fisker-emotion-unveiled-9-minute-charge-time/

Hello, America!

NINE MINUTES v 10 hours for a Tesla?

This means you can stop for a McDonald’s or a Cracker Barrel and power up while eating. Huge game changer.

BRC
http://www.themusingsofthebigredcar.com

Yes. Harry’s and Dollar Shave Club attacked Gillette on, call it, different, maybe innovative, marketing and distribution.

Fine. Usually take an advantage wherever can, including marketing, distribution, sympathy for the little guy instead of the old, big monster, etc.

But Harry’s and Dollar are discovering that their innovation was easy to duplicate or equal, really, just copy, and, thus, didn’t constitute much of a Buffett moat.

On why buy a blade factory, got to make the blade somewhere. Then, hmm, if don’t own the factory, maybe there would be some sneaky ways BIg Boy could arrange that Little Boy was short on supply, more generally had unreliable supply. I don’t know how many would like to have a contract to make good blades so can’t guess more.

Lots of people have made good money without a good Buffett moat, but generally such a moat is an advantage.

I find this interesting in that the legacy gorilla is motivated here to jump in. Probably because, gosh darn it, its very freaking profitable to sell razor blades!

Still no money see – monkey do from the auto giants in response to TSLA’s cars and distribution models. But wait, that makes sense as selling fancy electric cars is a non-profitable business.

There sure are more and more of the hydrogen Toyota models running around here in the last few months. And I live 15 minutes from the TSLA factory. Hydrogen is the newer cool, just maybe.

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I want you to limit your focus to the situation wherein a couple of startups are going to differentiate themselves by the means of deliver — via subscription — while most other elements of the business stay the same.

In this instance, the legacy company is not really getting into the business as an entrepreneur. They are just doing a bit of Monkey See – Monkey Do in which they are copying the disribution mojo of he startups.

Whatever you can see, you can copy.

The thing about Harrys buying their own razor factory is a nice twist and the “stacking the stack” is a flavor of the month type thing, but it is really a vanity. Gillette has been making their own blades longer than the Harrys guys have been alive.

Gillette is also not abandoning their traditional business. For them, this is a broadening of their distribution model, not a wholesale abandonment.

Hope you are looking a great weekend in the eyes.

BRC
ww.themusingsofthebigredcar.com

the big boy can learn how to do it

In some cases, likely not.

First since big boy flatly couldn’t figure out how to do it, they would have to figure out who to hire. Likely (A) they don’t know how to do that and (B) are too embarrassed to ask enough to learn how since such asking admits a lack of knowledge.

E.g., big boy might turn the recruiting over to their HR girls, some of whom are really cute, sweet, nice, etc. But all they would know to do would be to take wild stabs at some buzzwords, most of which would be wrong, The they would turn the matter over to some industry recruiters who would do even worse. Even if by chance they got a good resume, they wouldn’t be able to recognize it was good. Even if they got a good candidate on a phone screen, due to various issues of style they would conclude “lack of fit”.

Second assuming that somehow they hired a good person, they would have to manage him. Very definitely they wouldn’t know how to do that. In particular they wouldn’t know if the guy was doing well or not. They’d start to get frustrated and, then, angry.

Third, due to the importance of the work e.g., roughly save much of the company, they would have to have that person around the offices, really the C-level suite, and they very much would NOT want to do that. If they hire the right person, then he will be so different in attitude, talents, interests, education, style, experience, values, work approach, etc. from everyone on the C-suite that the whole C-suite would soon come to hate him, treat him like dirt, slash his tires, cut his budget, keep him from hiring people who really could help him, distract him with a long list of side projects, put a manager over him who would direct, and thus kill, the work, etc.

Fourth, as soon as this person starts to look successful, everyone in the C-suite and nearly everyone on the BoD will be afraid of him and hope he gets run over by a truck so that they can all get back to business the old fashioned way they liked so much.

Fifth, even if the guy is successful through the fourth, the C-suite will so hate the new direction that there is zip, zilch, zero, nichts, nil, nada chance the work will be permitted to be successful in the market.

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Haha, I admit to having bought 100 such razors some time ago — must have been years ago as I still have a lot of them. Got mine at Sams Club. They were very cheap.

I get a lot of razors for presents and I have a deep bench of 5-blade razors which do shave closer.

BRC
http://www.themusingsofthebigredcar.com

Buy it for $23 bucks.

And don’t think about razors ever again for about 2 years.

Buying razors on demand is about as exciting as buying bottles of Tide on demand.

http://themusingsofthebigredcar.com/attracting-lightning/

BRC
http://www.themusingsofthebigredcar.com

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