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Pitfalls in logistics partnerships
In 1973, Distribution magazine published an article by a public warehousing executive which stated the opinion that the relationship between the public warehouse operator and the customer should be one of partnership. An angry response was later published as a letter to the editor. The writer was a food industry logistics executive who also was former editor of the magazine. His attack on the article ended with these words, “the public warehouseman is no more in partnership with his customer than a mortician is in partnership with a corpse”.