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At least shoppers with bar code scanners are still visiting stores. What should really be striking fear and terror into the hearts of retailers are shoppers who
by Umalu 16y ago
At least shoppers with bar code scanners are still visiting stores. What should really be striking fear and terror into the hearts of retailers are shoppers who never set foot in stores anymore, people who, like me, order everything online.
- gmjosack 16y agoYou're not consuming time of their staff asking questions and using resources. People who go to the store to get information with no intent to buy are worse than people who just ignore the store.
- tomjen3 16y agoNot really - with Amazon you have to add shipping and a trip to the local post office (since they _never_ deliver when you are home), and nobody is going across town to save 20$ on a several houndred dollar widescreen tv. But when you don't go to the store _at all_ there is no way they make a sale.
- drusenko 16y agoHave your packages delivered to work and get Amazon Prime. Problems solved :)
- gjm11 16y agoThe cost of the TV shouldn't make any difference to your willingness to go across town to save $20. Saving $20 on something that costs $400 gets you exactly as much benefit as saving $20 on something that costs $40. That's not to say that you should be going across town to save $20 on anything. It might well not be worth the cost in time and fuel. But doing that to get a $20 item free, or a $40 item at half price, shouldn't be any more appealing than doing it to get 2% off the price of a $1000 item. (It's a serious bug in our wetware that all the above feels so unintuitive to most of us.)
- tomjen3 16y agoYeah but if you can afford several hundred dollars for a tv you aren't likely to be in the category of people who care about $20 bucks, whereas if you buy something for $40 you might. So thats why I wrote that.