Best Buy Says It Has Killed 'Showrooming' For Good

[MADem]

111. Try being eighty and living on a social security check. That's real poverty--you don't get

it. Your compassion is lacking. You are wealthy compared to the people I am talking about.

And the ignorant are NOT prey--or at least, in a decent society, they should not be.

Spend some time volunteering to deliver meals on wheels, or mopping the floor at a feeding center--you will meet these people I am talking about, and it will open your eyes, which, despite your having a relative with medical issues and having to watch your expenses, are still glued shut.

I don't like "two tiered pricing" that depends on having the ABILITY to "do your homework." These people don't have the ability to "do homework," and you scorn them for that and regard them as "prey." It's not that "every price should be the cheapest price possible," it's that a business with a moral center doesn't offer one price to those MOST able to afford more, and another price to those LEAST able to pay it. And that is what these people are doing.

I don't care for your worldview, not one bit. Caveat emptor is not the rule in America. In America, we have a nominal degree of food inspection so we don't have to take our lives in our hands every time we go to the grocer. We have safety standards and warning labels. We aren't perfect, but we don't have a "caveat emptor" mentality, here. When we learn that there's a problem, we warn people and take dangerous crap off the market. We have people like Elizabeth Warren who look out for the buyer, so the buyer doesn't have to "beware." Your mindset sounds right out of the playbook of the other team--"Fuck 'em, they should KNOW better!"

If Best Buy wants customers to come back and have a good opinion of them, they should offer their best price to everyone, not just the 'tech savvy' bargain hunters. They'd earn customer loyalty if they did that. Right now, they're playing a game that smells like "Oh, you're a smart one, so you get the good deal...but pssst.... see that old guy over there? He's a moron, so we'll fuck him over....aren't you lucky-- you're smart, he's stupid! Now off you go, and feel good about yourself because you're BETTER than that dumb schmuck!"

Ugh. That kind of shit encourages the worst greed and selfishness, and I won't play the game. I think people who buy into that crap need a moral course correction. They aren't walking the walk.


I prefer this paradigm: