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Hey, it's a Walgreens ad! Basically, their strategy is to saturate the market, and they don't care if they steal sales or cannibalize their own sales. They're
by stephengillie 13y ago
Hey, it's a Walgreens ad!
Basically, their strategy is to saturate the market, and they don't care if they steal sales or cannibalize their own sales. They're maximizing profit per customer visit, but ignoring customer visits per store per week?
- GhotiFish 13y agoI admire skepticism, and yes this kind of guerrilla marketing is common, but I don't think Walgreens would be targeting Hacker News. Hackers are not a prime demographic. A point in your favor though, The author is pretty new. This being his second blog post.
- shalmanese 13y agoThe author is an early employee at Quora. He has better things to do with his time than shill for Walgreens.