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It reminds me of stores, you can get a feel for how well the store is doing by how aggressively they try to shovel the loyalty card on you. See also: magazines
by somat 4y ago
It reminds me of stores, you can get a feel for how well the store is doing by how aggressively they try to shovel the loyalty card on you.
See also: magazines, watch the signal to noise ratio plummet as they try to prop up revenue with more and lower quality ads.
I get why they do it, they are in a death spiral, desperately trying to find that one thing that will save them, mostly I think it just hastens the end as the bad experience turns people away.
- Bakary 4y agoI always wondered why physical shops offered a much worse experience in many ways than online ones, even taking into account the obviously insurmountable logistical advantage of the latter. I mean you'd expect them to at least try to have better service? The answer of course is that their only choice is to focus on their captive audience (people who can't or won't buy online) and extract as much as possible until the music stops. A similar thing is ironically happening to Netflix