I’m not arguing labels. I’m saying savings do get passed on. If you don’t pass on savings store across town will do that, advertise everyday low prices, and take your market. That was Walmart. In commodity retail there’s no differentiation to justify a price premium.
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I’m guessing that’s a mix of labor propaganda and bad economic analysis
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i guess my point is something like the "pass the savings onto the customer" line is bullshit such that by the time those savings are passed onto the customer (to the extent that they are), it won't be clear whether it was because of or in spite of a given intervention
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Hmm I don’t think it’s bullshit. It’s the basic logic of all industrial automation.
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bullshit like frankfurt, like the interlocutor doesn't care the extent to which or even whether it's true
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That’s your own “ROI is bs” argument applied to specific automations. I’d bet it pays off across all deployments of self-checkout but individual stores maybe not
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Yeah I don’t do capitalism with Chinese characteristics only the robber baron kind 😆
I read that as necromercantilism and I’m okay with that.
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