Once a week, after going through the invoices, Edgar emails the department managers, spelling out what they could have ordered cheaper elsewhere, and/or should have for possible some other reason, like quality. The vendor and the item number are after all listed on their shelf tags, are two of the fields on the new items spreadsheet. Merchandisers are copied on these emails, although the degree to which they’re involved with product ordering itself ranges from heavily (Christie) to pretty much introducing new item lines only (Dale). Harry Redcrow as always seems to not have much faith in the information Edgar is imparting, and may in fact continue to consider him an idiot.
This episode is also available as a blog post: https://jasonmcgathey.wordpress.com/2021/02/12/tales-of-a-scorched-coffee-pot-chapter-15/
