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So go to your grocery store. Milk is in the corner so you have to all past the candy and chips to get to it. Did they breach your trust? Customers want milk - w

• TheCowboy 10y ago
  Retail store methods, utilizing tricks and subtle manipulations, may be legal but it doesn't make them unambiguously ethical and above criticism. They are permitted to function that way for practical reasons of interest to all of us, but it's not an argument against it being a breach of trust. (And it would likely be a net economic benefit to society if people bought less junk food, and could get in and out of a grocery store quicker.)
• iamatworknow 10y ago
  It's slightly different with Netflix and its recommendation engine. To extend your analogy the grocery store would need to be telling you "Hey shopper, based on your personalized history of buying milk we think you'd like to buy cereal." But instead of giving you all of the cereal in the same aisle the store brand cereal is up front and costs the same as the brand names, and all the cereal the store doesn't get a cut on is in the farthest corner.
• mhaymo 10y ago
  That's a highly debatable factoid. Milk is in the back of the store because that's where deliveries come in, so it's easier to ensure it stays refrigerated at all times that way. http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2014/07/23/334076398/episode-555-why-is-the-milk-in-the-back-of-the-store http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2014/07/23/334076398/episo...
• DoofusOfDeath 10y ago
  Actually, our milk is delivered weekly, in glass bottles, by the dairy truck. It's pretty epic.