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It's the same in all industries. Look at airlines. People aren't willing to spend $x to have actual legroom. Everyone only every buys the lowest cost. Or cl

• chinathrow 11y ago
  > And modern supply chains are so complex thats its impossible to ensure that 100% of the time policies are complied with. That might be true but it's still only an excuse at the end of the day.
  • Khaine 11y ago
    True, But even if you want to do the right thing the complexity makes it hard to maintain accountability. You audit your supplier, and they have sub suppliers and sub sub suppliers and sub sub sub suppliers. How far down the rabbit hole can you go?
• eitally 11y ago
  You're the second person I've seen post this about airlines in the past two days (I believe the first was on Reddit). I have thought about it and don't actually believe it's 100% true. People buy what's cheap at the time they need the ticket. The problem is price variability/gaming by the airlines. You can very easily see >100% variability in the price of the same ticket from one day to the next, and it has nothing to do with objective variables. It's pure price manipulation, just like everything else airlines do (baggage, food, boarding order, upgrades, elite lounges, free drinks, point bonuses).
  • Khaine 11y ago
    I'm not sure what airlines are like in America, but in general (where I am) people only look at price and then complain about it. See http://www.slate.com/articles/business/moneybox/2014/12/cheap_airlines_why_americans_will_suffer_worse_service_on_flights_in_order.html http://www.slate.com/articles/business/moneybox/2014/12/chea...
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