Local Bookstores Call for Boycott of Amazon for Advertising Their Prices
21st December 2011
That’s not how they would put it, of course, but that’s what it is.
Yes, retail bookstores, in what may be the single most backward thinking request of all time, are asking the general public (i.e. customers) to boycott Amazon due to the release of this phone app. For those too busy playing solitaire to really think this through, let me break this down for you. Amazon can offer goods at lower prices than many retail stores, they release an app that allows consumers to verify whether that’s the case on an individual product, the customer stands only to save money through this app, and retailers are asking customers to boycott the company saving them money over it. It’d be like boycotting a doctor for offering a cancer cure because, well, what about all the other doctors who have been making money offering chemo treatments?