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Originally Posted by ApK
I don't see anything unethical with it at all, not unless the market economy is an inherently unethical construct.
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Under its current implementation in the US, I'd make that exact argument. I don't have all my proof in hand (for example, a quote from a business major that CEOs are paid the big bucks because they go into the legal grey areas so the company can make big bucks), but I'd even go so far as to argue that laissez-faire capitalism and ethics are mutually exclusive.
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Originally Posted by graycyn
There are plenty of times I would love to be able to purchase in a store rather than have to shop online and wait for delivery, but more and more often I am forced to do just that.
I speak up about it too, to let the stores who discontinue stocking a product I buy regularly know that they will be losing that sale to an online vendor but they simply do not care.
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There's a game store where every time I've come in, they haven't had what I was looking for- and its an item they should reasonably have one of in stock. Now, I could get it cheaper from the War Store or one of any other deep discounters online, but it kills the impulse buy effect.
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Originally Posted by crossi
Make shops showrooms with only display copies of books.
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I could see that working better than charging for admission. You like the book, you have some way of notifying the staff you want it (pull a paper slip? swipe a club card?) and then your books are pulled and sent to the cage behind the register. When they're down to the now much-abused display copy, that one gets sold at a deep discount.
They're already doing it at computer parts stores.