expiredRokket | Staff posted Dec 10, 2021 03:44 AM
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expiredRokket | Staff posted Dec 10, 2021 03:44 AM
Everyday Essentials All-Purpose Solid Cast Iron Kettlebell (25-Lbs) $26 + Free Shipping
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The 26.5lb is $17.99
(The libertarian/economist side of me says that price rationing is perfectly logical, but I still think people should be more up in arms about it.)
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(The libertarian/economist side of me says that price rationing is perfectly logical, but I still think people should be more up in arms about it.)
Once the infrastructure is in place, they surely could implement real-time demand optimized pricing but I don't think they will. Unlike a webstore, it's very difficult to enact hard cutoffs on pricing as customers navigate the store and take varying amounts of time between item selection at shelf to reach checkout. Again, not impossible but also not likely in the short to mid-term
More like up and down based on some quantity threshold, a bit closer to "we have too many in inventory so let's clear some out until we reach a certain inventory level" or " we'll put 100 out at a special price and back to normal after those are sold". Fairly typical retail pricing logics but employed more dynamically.
More like up and down based on some quantity threshold, a bit closer to "we have too many in inventory so let's clear some out until we reach a certain inventory level" or " we'll put 100 out at a special price and back to normal after those are sold". Fairly typical retail pricing logics but employed more dynamically.
Once the infrastructure is in place, they surely could implement real-time demand optimized pricing but I don't think they will. Unlike a webstore, it's very difficult to enact hard cutoffs on pricing as customers navigate the store and take varying amounts of time between item selection at shelf to reach checkout. Again, not impossible but also not likely in the short to mid-term
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Once the infrastructure is in place, they surely could implement real-time demand optimized pricing but I don't think they will. Unlike a webstore, it's very difficult to enact hard cutoffs on pricing as customers navigate the store and take varying amounts of time between item selection at shelf to reach checkout. Again, not impossible but also not likely in the short to mid-term
The question I'm ultimately asking is "Why does Amazon do this just because they can?"
Others could easily follow suit (think about gas stations). They just don't because they value not pissing off customers. Amazon knows they have plenty of volume that they can be jerks about a select few things because they're delivering so well in so many other areas.
I still shop there, and I have since 1998. And I've been invested in them for almost 15 years. One of those two relationships has made me happier than the other
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