Marketing people and a Polybag

It could be described no less than an eye-opening experience. Me, sitting in a telecon with a factory manager, R&D scientists and maybe 5 marketing persons. Listening to these 5 marketing persons debate with R&D for over ONE hr, how much ink and what colours the printing on the polybag should be (for the unintiated, the polybag is a the plastic bag). The discussion centered around how to make a barcode on the bag more visible. And so the marketing dudes (most of them highly educated, very intelligent people) garbled on and on and on about colour, tone and bag material for a good 1hr. I could hardly believe my ears. My my it seems, these people can be more nitpicky and anal than women. 1hr just trying to decide on the background colour of a barcode? Man. Think they can compete with those hdb aunties on vegetable prices at the wet market leow.