Of course, Wal-Mart isn't likely to overbuy PopTarts, so it's not
really an issue.
Doug
On Sep 22, 2007, at 6:33 PM, Daniel Davies wrote:
You bring up a very interesting question -- at least, interesting
to me.
What would
be the economic effect of buying too many PopTarts? <<
Unambiguously positive for GDP - they would count as "inventory
building"
when you bought them, then they would sit around in a warehouse for
a while,
then you'd throw them away, which would be depreciation, which is
not part
of *gross* domestic product.
dd
