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For years, various linen companies have irritated me by insisting on using their own color-coding system for scrubs, instead of a universal color code.

I realize one of the advantages to this system is that it makes it harder to switch business from one company to another. I learned a long time ago to live with this situation and actually had come to accept it as normal. A recent incident involving linen carts stirred my memory about this lack of standardization in the laundry industry.