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Alternative title: "Some stores offer more consistent prices than others. Some stores have lower average prices than others." We're not entitled to low nor con
by ISL 11y ago
Alternative title: "Some stores offer more consistent prices than others. Some stores have lower average prices than others."
We're not entitled to low nor consistent prices. We should expect pricing to fluctuate.
Buy at a price where an item is worth as much (or more) to you than the price you pay, and you'll always get your money's worth. Sometimes this means not buying the item.
If you want to know which stores practice consistent pricing, or want to know which stores fluctuated low in last year's known-big sale days, this article is useful.
- unsettledtck 11y agoI like your extremely accurate title pitch. And no, we're not entitled to low or consistent prices, but the fact that there is inflation on "sale" days is noteworthy because of the air of false advertising. You're absolutely correct though, shoppers should buy when they feel comfortable because buyer's remorse is meaningless when you're happy with the purchase.
- CWuestefeld 11y agoOur pricing is constantly changing. That's nothing nefarious. We calculate pricing in realtime, because we get frequent updates on the underlying cost from our suppliers - daily in the case of the most important ones. I wrote the pricing engine - it's always calculating the optimal price based on what it's going to cost us to fulfill the order from our suppliers. It also dynamically determines which supplier will be the source on any item based on cost, inventory, and other factors, although this happens less than realtime. So price variation isn't necessarily evidence of anything nefarious, it can be the result of an effort to provide optimal pricing that's sensitive to logistical variations. (Note that this is all in a B2B context, which is maybe a little different from consumers.)