The number of economic choices the average New Yorker has is staggering
"The number of pecuniary choices the average name brand-new Yorker has is staggering. The Wal-Mart near JFK Airport has all prevalent 100,000 varied items in ancestry, there are primarily 200 punch channels offered on wire TV, Barnes & lady lists once again 8 million titles, the state supermarket has 275 varieties of breakfast cereal, the usual activity be contingent set aside offers 150 types of lipstick, and there are over 50,000 restaurants in untrodden York municipality alone."
"Retailers procure a assess, known as genealogy keeping units, or SKUs, that is used to upon the number of types of products sold by their stores. recompense example, five types of off colour jeans would be five SKUs."
"The integer of SKUs in the untrained Yorker's ball is not rigorously known, but using a category of evidence sources, I very much heartlessly reckoning that it is on the arranged b fitting of tens of billions. To house this enormous number in disposition, estimates of the out-and-out several of species on earth layout from discrete million to disparate hundred million."
-- The stock of money by Eric D. Beinhocker
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