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Subject:	Re: Why not smaller & more affordable for all?
Newsgroups:	lugnet.build.microscale, lugnet.dear-lego
Date:	Thu, 21 Jul 2005 14:02:29 GMT
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I’m 80% sure (guesswise) that the reason is “we don’t have enough SKUs”... This seems to me a sign of internal breakage, LEGO needs to fix their systems so they can have more SKUs without it costing them a lot more.

How much does it cost to have some more numbers?!

Tim

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		Re: Why not smaller & more affordable for all?
(...) I work for a publisher here in NYC and one of the requirments from our Editor in Chief is 'keeping the sku count low' (number of different books we produce, not quantities of each title that we print). I'm not 100% sure this is the reasoning (...) (19 years ago, 21-Jul-05, to lugnet.build.microscale, lugnet.dear-lego, FTX)

		Re: Why not smaller & more affordable for all?
(...) It's not a matter of simply adding more numbers to the system. As was pointed out elsewhere, each new product brings added complexity to the system, as well as additional development costs. Designing and printing one box, for example, is (...) (19 years ago, 21-Jul-05, to lugnet.build.microscale, lugnet.dear-lego, FTX)

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		Re: Why not smaller & more affordable for all?
(...) I'm 80% sure (guesswise) that the reason is "we don't have enough SKUs"... This seems to me a sign of internal breakage, LEGO needs to fix their systems so they can have more SKUs without it costing them a lot more. (19 years ago, 21-Jul-05, to lugnet.build.microscale, lugnet.dear-lego, FTX)

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