Small Disadvantaged Business

I couldn’t help laughing out loud this morning when I realized that our box of laser printer transparencies at work prominently indicated it was for a “small disadvantaged business”, and that was the best that we could get.

Upon further thought, I felt it was kind of screwed up that here we were at Stanford, depriving small disadvantaged businesses everywhere from a rightful purchase of these incredibly affordable 5 mil transparency film sheets for HP Color LaserJets with 50% recycled content.

Upon even further thought, I started to wonder if the label actually meant that the transparency sheets were in fact manufactured or distributed by a small disadvantaged business, and that we were in fact aiding their development by purchasing these amazingly incredible transparency sheets.

All this is basically to say I wish the labeling had been more clear.  Does anybody have any other interpretation of what this means?

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