> and if their everyday low prices are available to the entire country via a mechanical turk algorithm which is guaranteed to beat you, how do you compete? ...

> and if their everyday low prices are available to the entire country via a mechanical turk algorithm which is guaranteed to beat you, how do you compete? ...i think this is an incorrect usage of "mechanical turk". this would imply a person behind the 'algorithm' making it go, and, chuckling to myself as i write this, the answer to the question on how to compete might be to make an algorithm that does not i fact work like a mechanical turk!