An independent investigation found that the same cart could be $10 more expensive based on vibes. As evacide mentioned on Mastodon, Instacart claims it is the stores fault, and the stores say Instacart sets the pricing. Such innovation! Way of the future.
Hi, I’m Phil Nelson, a writer, developer, and audio-visual maker of stuff. I have been making stuff online for over 25 years. I run RetroStrange and Set Side B. Good to see you.
Blog Archives
Tag: business
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Joel Spolsky announces Trello, Inc.
That architecture is all the stuff I spent ten years ranting on this blog about, but y’all don’t listen, so I’m just going to have to build company after company that runs my own wacky operating system, and eventually you’ll catch on. It’s OK to put people first. You don’t have to be a psychopath or work people to death or create heaps of messy code or work in noisy open offices.
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Level3 is without peer, now what to do?
The idea here is pretty clear: these five ISPs want to be paid extra for doing the job they are already being paid for. Extra ports are required to handle the current level of traffic and these companies are assuming that when the pain becomes great enough — that’s our pain, by the way — Level3 or some Level3 customer like Netflix will pay the extra money to make the problem go away.
The major ISPs (basically any one of Comcast, Time Warner Cable, CenturyLink, Charter Communications, AT&T U-verse, Cox Communications, and Verizon FiOS) want to essentially freeze the current, busted-ass, infrastructure, and get end-users and major traffic users like Netflix to pay for the newer, better, infrastructure, then charge us all extra after we’ve paid for it. Net Neutrality has to die for them to achieve this, so they’re making their big push to kill it.
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Zappos says goodbye to bosses
[The Washington Post:][link]
>The Las Vegas-based retailer is now going even more radical, introducing a new approach to organizing the company. It will eliminate traditional managers, do away with the typical corporate hierarchy and get rid of job titles, at least internally.
Sounds like a fantastic idea. I’ve never worked a job with a “manager” that wasn’t a total shit-show. Genuinely hope it works out for them and others follow suit.
[link]: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/on-leadership/wp/2014/01/03/zappos-gets-rid-of-all-managers/# “Zappos says goodbye to bosses”
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Warner Bros: Pirates Show Us What Consumers Want
[Hey guess what, Warner Bros?][link] Pirates show you what consumers want because *they are consumers*. They just don’t consume in the way you want them to.
The most interesting thing about this article is that WB admits to selectively enforcing copyright based on how beneficial it is to them from an analytics standpoint. Which means they’re admitting, in public, that piracy can be beneficial.
[link]: http://torrentfreak.com/warner-bros-pirates-show-us-what-consumers-want-130624/ “Warner Bros: Pirates Show Us What Consumers Want | TorrentFreak”
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Does Startup Life Have To Be A 24/7 Grind?
[Short answer: No.][link] Long answer: No, but nobody takes advice like this no matter how good it is.
[link]: http://blog.groovehq.com/post/47537406719/does-startup-life-have-to-be-a-24-7-grind “Does Startup Life Have To Be A 24/7 Grind? | Groove Blog”
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The Problem With “Warby Parker for X”
[Jamie Quint:][link]
>Direct to consumer online-only retail is not disruptive because its online. Do not mistake good marketing for a new and innovative business model. Warby Parker was a special case driven by very interesting market dynamics that don’t apply to the other companies in the space. Let’s dive in and take a look.
and it’s a good look. I’ve been seeing this meme a lot in the tech circles lately, and this shreds it pretty hard.
[link]: http://jamiequint.com/warby-parker-for-x “The Problem With “Warby Parker for X” | Jamie Quint”
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The Magazine
[A new subscription-based digital magazine][link] from Marco Arment of Instapaper. Really looking forward to seeing where this goes. How can you not love a guy who not only understands this:
>Usually, things are done the way they’re done for good reasons. But sometimes, they’re only done that way because nobody has questioned it recently.
… but is also willing to put his money where his philosophy is.
[link]: http://the-magazine.org/1/foreword “The Magazine”
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LouisCK Selling Tour Tickets Directly From His Website
[Cutting out the middle-man and going fan direct for his next tour.][link] He says they will be actively looking for and straight-up *deactivating* scalped tickets.
The scalping idea is interesting, but it seems like the potential for a big PR disaster is there. Unless they plan on investigating every suspected scalped ticket, anyway.
[link]: https://buy.louisck.net/news/im-going-on-the-road “LouisCK.net | I'm going on the road”
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Right versus pragmatic
[Marco Arment, as he often does, speaks wisdom][link]:
>The pragmatic approach is to address the demand.
File this one under things to always remember in business.
[link]: http://www.marco.org/2012/02/25/right-vs-pragmatic “Right versus pragmatic – Marco.org”