A Gadget Is More Than the Sum of Its Parts
It’d be fun to report that that job taught me important skills and precepts that followed me for the rest of my life, but that’d be pushing it.
That job did teach me, however, one important thing about the business world. My best friend, John, worked next door at a watch shop. He told me he could get incredible discounts on the watches — all I had to do was ask. I needed a watch, in fact, so I picked out a $200 model and asked what I’d have to pay. He said $60.
I was appalled. “You mean to tell me that your shop pays $60 for that watch, and then jacks up the price to $200 for the consumer? That’s outrageous! That’s practically robbery! You should be ashamed to work there!”
John was amused, and he proceeded to teach me a lesson. “Oh, really? That’s a big ripoff, huh? Well, let me ask you this: How much do you think Chick-fil-A pays for each of the chicken breasts?”
I calculated that in the massive quantities this chain purchased, it was maybe 40 cents.
“And the bun?” Maybe 4 cents. “The pickle?” One-tenth of a cent. “O.K., and how much do you sell the sandwich for?” $2.40.
Now, it’s been 30 years. All of the numbers in this story are vague recollections — I don’t need e-mail from chicken-farm vendors setting me straight. But I’m quite sure of the result: By the time I’d done the math, John had made me realize that my sandwich shop was marking up its product more than his watch shop. I was the one who should be ashamed.
Right?
I think of this transaction every time somebody does a “teardown analysis” of an iPhone, a Kindle Fire or some other hot new product. These companies buy a unit, take it apart, photograph the components and then calculate the price of each. Then they tally those component costs and try to make you outraged that you’ve paid so much markup.
IHS iSuppli’s breakdown of the iPhone 4S component cost, for the $400 model, is $245.
(Here’s iFixit’s teardown , which is more about photographic evidence of the teardown and less about the prices of the pieces.
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"As the directions have come from the Election Commission, we cannot exempt anyone from the checks, be it property buyers, petrol pump owners, traders, etc who normally carry excess cash as part of their business," said Saravjeet Ram, ADM (Finance).
I did everything: manned the cash register, made sandwiches and cleaned up. The Times's technology columnist, David Pogue, keeps you on top of the industry in his free, weekly e-mail newsletter. It'd be fun to report that that job taught me important
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The bottom part of the front door had been kicked in, allowing access to the dead bolt lock. The owner said he closed the business the previous day at about 3 pm It appeared that the only thing missing was about $30 from the cash register.
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