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In an effort to combat the rise of Amazon retail stores have decided to make going to them a miserable experience. From dumb questions asking if you are a rewa
by skh 8y ago
In an effort to combat the rise of Amazon retail stores have decided to make going to them a miserable experience. From dumb questions asking if you are a rewards member to personally intrusive questions asking what big plans you have this weekend to this. More and more I dread actually going to a store. Amazon’s cashierless stores use cameras but that cost is compensated by making the shopping experience better.
- Zelphyr 8y agoThe annoyance and inconvenience of having a cashier ask me about my weekend pales in comparison to what Amazon is doing with my data. And I think we'll find in the coming years that they are every bit as nefarious when it comes to the use of our private information as Facebook is.
- J5892 8y agoWhat's your definition of nefarious? If using your data to get you to spend as much money as possible fits that definition, then sure. They're absolutely doing that.
- skh 8y agoMy sarcasm was to make a point. The way for retail to combat Amazon is not to become even more annoying and give people reasons to not want to go to a store. People value convenience a lot. Hence Facebook's rise despite their shenanigans. If you insist on doing the nefarious you must make certain to make it convenient. Retail stores shoot themselves in the foot with their annoying behavior because they are neither more convenient or less annoying. I've resolved myself to the fact that I live in a surveillance world now. My goal is to limit the knowledge to as few companies as possible. What I'm not willing to do is to be annoyed whilst giving my information to stupid retail stores.
- plaguuuuuu 8y agoDON'T TALK TO ME, PEON