3 ms·
The current title is "Amazon Almost Killed Best Buy. Then, Best Buy Did Something Completely Brilliant". There's a subreddit called "saved you a click" where th
by jedimastert 6y ago
The current title is "Amazon Almost Killed Best Buy. Then, Best Buy Did Something Completely Brilliant". There's a subreddit called "saved you a click" where they basically answer click-bait-y titles with the answer in the title. For instance, the title could be
> Amazon Almost Killed Best Buy. Then, Best Buy Did Something Completely Brilliant | They treated employees better, started price matching, and made home visits
Of course, if the article is written well enough, you should read it anyways, but it always feels cheap to just pose a question in the title that could be answered in one sentence.
- just-ok 6y agoThanks for saving me a click. :)
- btown 6y agoClickbait headlines and articles-that-should-be-a-sentence often go hand in hand... but you can have the former without the latter. IMO this is an article worth reading. There actually isn't much filler here - every paragraph has a relevant statistic or describes a part of the business model changes, and it appears that Best Buy's success was due to "life by a thousand wins" rather than "death by a thousand cuts" - each of which is enumerated and described concisely in the article. But YMMV.