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<p>[QUOTE="mikenoodle, post: 492988, member: 307"]As a matter of fact, Doug, I work for Safeway. In the produce warehouse. Apples are not made, they are grown, and therefore are all different. A manufactured product is subject to quality control. Not QC that is varied from factory to factory, day to day, but is the same, from plant to plant in order to form a product that is standard, reliable and very much the same from one to another. Coins are manufactured and therefore like any other product can be standardized and grade as such. </p><p><br /></p><p>But let's forget tha for a moment and go to something that is not standard but yet is graded. Back to the grocery business to you guessed it... eggs. grades are not made in standard plants mor are they standard in any way, but we still group them by size, color and quality into categories called grades. They are standard and they don't vary chicken to chicken or even from farm to farm. </p><p><br /></p><p>The market didn't have to accept these standards either, they were foisted upon them because it was the best system available. My hope was to displace the current system for grading by creating a better one.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="mikenoodle, post: 492988, member: 307"]As a matter of fact, Doug, I work for Safeway. In the produce warehouse. Apples are not made, they are grown, and therefore are all different. A manufactured product is subject to quality control. Not QC that is varied from factory to factory, day to day, but is the same, from plant to plant in order to form a product that is standard, reliable and very much the same from one to another. Coins are manufactured and therefore like any other product can be standardized and grade as such. But let's forget tha for a moment and go to something that is not standard but yet is graded. Back to the grocery business to you guessed it... eggs. grades are not made in standard plants mor are they standard in any way, but we still group them by size, color and quality into categories called grades. They are standard and they don't vary chicken to chicken or even from farm to farm. The market didn't have to accept these standards either, they were foisted upon them because it was the best system available. My hope was to displace the current system for grading by creating a better one.[/QUOTE]
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