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Yeah, it's the asymmetry here of that cost that is the problem. Consumers could fight back if pricing data were as accessible to us as it is to retailers. Leve
by tomjakubowski 3y ago
Yeah, it's the asymmetry here of that cost that is the problem. Consumers could fight back if pricing data were as accessible to us as it is to retailers. Leveling that out is part of the datasette philosophy, I think. An important question is how to scale that up so there's a collective effort on consumer behalf to resist this.
- randomdata 3y agoThe only way to fight back is to cease being a customer. You don't need price information for that. How are you going to "fight back" with price data? If you shift your habits to buy when the price is low – that's what they want you to do! A restaurant is far more efficient (read: profitable) when there is a steady stream of customers all day long, rather than having nobody in the place at 3PM and then a flood of people at 6PM. If a lower price can compel you to eat at 3PM instead of 6PM, that's a win for them.
- JohnFen 3y ago> The only way to fight back is to cease being a customer. You don't need price information for that. This is the approach I take. I don't think of it as "fighting back", though, as my goal isn't to change the bad behavior of companies. That's largely impossible. Instead, it's just a stance of pure self-protection. The only way I can protect myself against bad companies is to not engage with them at all.