Comment Price Machine (Score 1) 72
My partner is a price machine.
They can tell you exactly what the prices are for regularly purchased goods at every single store we frequent.
I can point to avocados and ask if thatâ(TM)s a good price or not, and they can tell me the prices of every other place they have been to.
It appears Walmart is beginning to mess with this. But if the prices go up and fluctuate then we will simply stop shopping there. We will, in fact, start going to the small discount grocery places which have sprung up in the area. The avocados might be going bad soon, but when they are half the price of the other stores in the area, itâ(TM)s absolutely worth it.
Iâ(TM)m not saying most people will do this. Most people just want convenience. We think about the time and gas cost to procure specific goods, and do a quick optimization based on that. If Walmart starts messing with our ability to get a reasonable price, we simply wonâ(TM)t shop there anymore, and they will have lost a customer.
Other people can just blindly walk into this, and Iâ(TM)m sure they will. At this point in American economics other people can go get effed sideways⦠it means more opportunities for those who pay attention to whatâ(TM)s going on. Canâ(TM)t pay attention and have a little critical thinking? Well, I guess thatâ(TM)s your problem.