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Patient is at Costco. Has just put a 40-count box of laundry pods into the cart. They have, at home, 14 unused pods from the previous 40-count box. They have, on a shelf in the garage, an unopened 40-count box from January. The new box will also not be opened. Patient is now eyeing a 48-pack of paper towels. They have not run out of paper towels in four years.
Chronic. Inventory exceeds realistic consumption by approximately 800%.
None. The savings-per-unit is, apparently, the point.
Patients with Pathological Bulk-Buy Paradox typically present with some or all of the following:
Pathological Bulk-Buy Paradox was added to the Institute catalog in response to a pattern our clinicians kept seeing. The pattern did not have a real name. This is the real name now. Everything about this entry is made up, except the behavior.
The Institute has assigned this condition the Latin binomial Emptio volumina inutilis — fictional nomenclature for a non-fictional pattern.
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