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Or plant it, if it's a decent size, it can yield over 1lbs of potatoes in 3 months. In my area it's low maintenance. If you have limited space, I've had 5 lbs worth in a 15 gallon bag, it has about the same footprint as an office chair.

There are already many effective processes that have been developed, schools however don't want to implement them for varying reasons (blind marking for example).

An example from Daniel Kahneman's Noise (I'm paraphrasing) - When university faculty was told of their bias in marking from hunger/mood/normal daily human sways, why didn't the first person marking it write the grade on the back so the second couldn't see it until the end: They responded that they used to do it that way, but it caused arguments.

Small construction tools (drills, portable table saws, angle grinders) is largely done at big box stores, however smaller stores sell a fair amount, plus specialty product, but the bread and butter small tools are big box stores. Quality is the same, and prices are generally lower.

Shop equipment used to be done by trade show, not sure how it works these days.

We deal with a similar problem in construction materials, and it's not that simple. Situation:

1)Customer picks up product, other falls on the ground and becomes damaged, product -x Equation: a-b-x where you don't know how much product is damaged 2)Product arrives in a bad batch, x number is affected, and requires manual adjustment, this doesn't happen, or happens incorrectly Equation: a-b-x where you don't know how much product is damaged 3)Customer picks up X amount, however x-y was registered as a sale Equation: a-b-y where you don't know how much product is unaccounted for 4)Delivery is expected on x day, however due to traffic/sickness/equipment failure delivery is delayed Equation: a-0, stock isn't available as it didn't arrive, however the assumption was that product arrived (trivial to fix this one, but I'm laying out scenarios).

You now have four scenarios that are guaranteed to happen around %10 of the time. Issues can be expanded to the manufacturer/border/trade agreements/ thousands of other potential scenarios that disrupt sourcing.

In terms of taking stock, it's not a trivial task to take accurate inventory on a regular basis. It's a manual problem that can only be done in a reliable fashion in most cases through estimation (therefore inaccurate).

The reason why they provide availability ratings is that it provides a clearer picture of what a customer can purchase, and in the event it has a low rating, prompt for potential replacements. It's not binary, it's a case of 'probably' or 'probably not'.

I've seen stock that should have lasted a week disappear in a day, stock mis-allocated(multiple times for the same item from multiple vendors in the same day), large volumes sold incorrectly resulting in stock adjustments, wastage from random occurrences, etc.

I hope this provides a level of insight into the complexities of

This is anecdotal, so take it with a grain: I worked for a credit card processor about a decade ago, and it was routine to have the merchant run a penny transaction on the terminal, and refund it post testing to make sure it works.

They're fairly large processing over $40b in annual transaction volumes, and there wasn't any stress about not doing it again post testing (the only stress was the customer wanting a refund for the transaction costs).

If it is a merchant bank, or network requirement, it's either explicitly for card not present transactions, or not well followed. The important factor was handling of the credit card information (PCI DSS compliance).

It's for public use...which was originally supposed to be paid(to help make the apartments affordable), but got turned into free parking. It was an odd turn of words, but was explained later on.

I can't speak about California specifically, but in Canada, if it can be reasonably be proven that the illness was obtained at the workplace, the employer is required to pay for the sick leave by the local health benefits service (State/Provincial/Federal level), which in this case would be two weeks.

The employer can fight the filing, but in the situation of COVID-19, it's reasonably easy to prove it was a workplace based infection (multiple people will get sick).

Side note, when you get payments from the local health benefits service, there's a %90 chance it's being paid by the employer to the health benefits service, which then transfers it to the employee

Most likely an S trap then. They are no allowed due to the probability of self siphoning. Not to say an S wouldn't, but it's improbable.