As your grocery executives know, a store handling a thousand items is far less difficult and expensive to operate than one handling five thousand or more, as yours do. But probably our greatest economies were obtained simply by stopping production of many processed and packaged foods. These had either been outlawed on health grounds or put on Bad Practice lists.” This sounded like a loophole that might house a large and rather totalitarian rat. “What are these lists and how are they enforced?” I asked. “Actually, they aren’t enforced at all. They’re a mechanism of moral persuasion, you might
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