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In lugnet.market.shopping, Frank Filz writes:
> This is something retailers are extremely sensitive about. The manager
> was assuming you were a "spy" for another retailer. I'm not sure what
> their exact protections under the law are, but from a purely Libertarian
> perspective, they have every right to throw you out of the store.
>
> When taken to extremes, this sort of thing does make it hard to price
> shop. I would hope that most stores would allow you to write down the
> prices and quantities available of a handfull of items you were shopping
> for, but I have no problem with them wanting to try and stop other
> retailers from "spying" on them.
Stunningly pointless, IMHO. The measures that a store puts into place to
prevent "spying" are invariably going to cost more than the potential loss of
revenue. Again, IMHO, the potential loss of revenue is diddly squat -
especially when talking about a very common brand name at MSRP (a very common
brand name on sale needs to be advertised to maximize revenue generation, and
a very common brand name on clearance has already lost most of its revenue
potential anyway).
And as a completely different point, that information needs to be freely
available for the market to work efficiently anyway.
James
http://www.shades-of-night.com/lego/
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| (...) There was a pretty famous case from a few years back of a guy who was (I believe) arrested for taking down prices and product information at a Good Guys. His trial was covered on "48 Hours" or one of those other news shows. In his case, he had (...) (25 years ago, 31-Dec-99, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.market.theory)
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| (...) This is something retailers are extremely sensitive about. The manager was assuming you were a "spy" for another retailer. I'm not sure what their exact protections under the law are, but from a purely Libertarian perspective, they have every (...) (25 years ago, 31-Dec-99, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.market.theory)
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