Word: underweighing
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Growers say that when they complain about the arrangement, the processors sometimes retaliate by terminating the relationship. Other growers say they have been penalized by processors who underweigh their chickens or give them ailing chicks to raise. In a trial in Arkansas last June, a former manager for Cargill, a major turkey producer, testified that "if you've got ((a grower)) you've just had it with, you might give him the bad ((birds)) just so he'd quit." Despite the testimony, the grower was unable to prove his case...
...headaches. Years earlier the Hartfords had set up teams of traveling auditors to check price tags and weights in all the stores and report back to them directly, thus keeping tabs on the empire. There was always the chance that a dishonest store manager would overcharge, short-change or underweigh. But honest managers also were squeezed. They got so little leeway in their allowances for breakage, spoilage and pilfering that some of them felt they had to cut honesty corners to make a good competitive showing...
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