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If you don't want to compare to Walmart, compare to a mom-and-pop store who stock products that they know local customers will buy, sometimes down to an individ
by ronaldx 13y ago
If you don't want to compare to Walmart, compare to a mom-and-pop store who stock products that they know local customers will buy, sometimes down to an individual customer level.
This is traditional stock management, pure and simple.
"To minimize [the cost of returns], Amazon said it might consider giving customers discounts" -- just like any other overstocked store.
- graeme 13y agoThis still doesn't address the long tail aspect. Amazon sells things I can't get at any local merchant.
- pessimizer 13y agoNot from what it would stock near you.
- brenschluss 13y agoAbsolutely incorrect. The long tail of products and the size of a store has nothing to do with each other. A mom and pop store is not going to cater to a local population any better just because it is small. It's hilariously wrong to think that people's buying habits are localized or consistent based on geography. If I need a linear carriage, a Razer Hydra, an obscure philosophy text by Merleau-Ponty, a 1/8" straight fluted HSS router bit, a jar of Mexican mole sauce, and a monitor arm mount -- where do I go? Walmart? My neighborhood mom-and-pop store? Of course not.
- novaleaf 13y ago++ because your rebuttals actually make sense :)