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Originally Posted by Giggleton
Well yes, you can eat a steak while shopping in the Safeway before you decide if you would like to purchase additional steaks (retention of longterm customers is more important than a single sale), that's just corporate policy...
I must ask you what benefit withholding a text from someone who may not be able to afford it accords? Should we not make sure that everyone is able to read whatever they wish to?
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Are you saying that Safeway will let you eat a steak in their store without paying for it? They won't let you eat a cookie or a grape (I have seen people hustled out of the store for doing that) And where would you cook that free steak or do people just stand their eating raw steaks till they find a good one?
And the benefit that witholding a text from someone who cannot pay for it is/are the same one(s) applying to all commercially sold goods. If I walk into a store or onto a car lot, they will withhold the goods unless I pay, whether I can afford them or not.
Plus as you know many books(texts) are available in libraries as ebooks or paper books. The excuse that they are not always available immediately is just immature and greedy.
If you want a book and cannot immediately acess it, you can always wait till you can afford it or it becomes available.
And for the edification of all of us, please give the location/address of the Safeway store that lets you eat the steak before you pay for it.
Helen