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Excerpt from Breakage and Damage in Grocery Warehouses and Retail Food Stores In five supermarkets, 10 causes accounted for 62 percent of the damage and 37 reasons unique to individual supermarkets caused 38 percent of the damage. Of the 62 percent resulting from the 10 major causes, employees damaged percent and customers percent. The 10 causes were: Cartons damaged by the cutter blade during opening of case, percent; items dropped by customer, percent; items falling when disturbed by customers, percent; items dropped during shelf stocking, percent; merchandise stacks falling over in backrooms, percent; merchandise crushed in stacks, percent; items broken or crushed in shopping carts, percent; items dropped by customers while unloading shopping carts, percent; units fall ing out of open or torn shipping containers, percent; and cases dropped while being taken from stock, percent. Typical of the recommendations for reducing store damage is the use of improved case cutters and cutting techniques, the pricing of some damageable items on the sales floor, and the use of storage racks in the storeroom for glass-packed and other easily damaged items. The causes of damage and the corrective actions described herein should be of material help to warehouse and store operators in reducing the damage. The improved salvage room equipment and layout presented will reduce the cost and improve the effectiveness of recouping losses in warehouses. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.