If it was normal, there wouldn't be special Costco models. All the other retailers would have made the same demands.
I'd love if the market fixed all these product quality issues, but it doesn't.
I'd love if the market fixed all these product quality issues, but it doesn't.
I'd love if the market fixed all these product quality
issues, but it doesn't.
The problem is that a consumer relies on thousands of products a year and it is a practical impossibility to be educated in all domains of knowledge. You can't have deep knowledge of transport, healthcare, technology, food, and a thousand other things.
(Shouldn't this be obvious to everyone?)
Also they skipped history class and are unfamiliar with all of the toxic and disgusting shit companies used to adulterate their food and medicine with
But bureaucrats are?
If you think it's impossible or merely undesirable for a society to have experts in public employ working for the greater good then... okay. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I'm certainly not going to change your ingrained beliefs. But hopefully you can learn to understand others' views. What I'm seeing is the typical tendency to misrepresent others' beliefs as some sort of all-encompassing faith in "bureaucrats." Wrong.
Markets are useful and proven tools. So are rules.
Both of them have proven inadequate on their own.
Quality ain't free. There's often a trade-off between quality and price. Pretending otherwise is foolish.
No food manufacturer us going to sell the 'normal' product as just that and label the cheaper one as somehow inferior.
On a side note, it irks me that a certain brand of mayonnaise (made by a global chemicals company), which calls itself 'real mayonnaise' lists its top two ingredients as vegetable (not olive) oil and water. Not exactly a classic start to how the original was made.
> No food manufacturer us going to sell the 'normal' product as just that and label the cheaper one as somehow inferior.
This sounds quite plausible if you go by the wording on the package. But the design can be quite telling.
Have a look at eg Tesco's 'Everyday Value' design. https://duckduckgo.com/?q=!i+tesco+everyday+value That stuff is made to look inferior.
walmart has had plenty of walmart-specific model numbers.
it typically leads to more confusion over what a customer is buying. the model number proliferation and the typical act of using the short form names leaves it feeling closer to gambling.