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Andecdata: my super-local coffee place is out of Chemex filters & not getting any in soon. Went on @Amazon to buy. Read reviews. Saw questions about counterfeit filters being sold via @amazon.
Srsly people, counterfeiting COFFEE FILTERS? #ugh
Ordering direct from Chemex instead.
If you can’t guarantee supply chain integrity, you are going to end up with a lot of intellectual property lawsuits-and a lot of customers who abandon you & are willing to pay more at other outlets for supply chain integrity.
That’s a warning, @amazon.
I won’t get them by tomorrow but also I won’t be poisoned by whatever un-foodsafe chemicals leech into my coffee from the fake ones.
#tradeoffs.
*leach. But leech works too since intellectual property thieves are leeches.
At some point, I see a tipping point where amazon is going to have to start paying me to buy from them.
Whole Foods has already gone downhill. Anecdata but IMO:
The prices are cheaper but quality = shittier, shelves go unstocked longer, and employees seem less happy.
A relentless focus on cost cutting = the Walmartification of retail culture.
And some people are done with that.
I don’t want “luxury,” which is often just branding slapped on top of the same shoddy manufacturing.
I want QUALITY.
I’m willing to pay for it.
And I’m not alone.
/steps off soapbox (for a bit)
P.S. It’s all about economies of scale, which eventually, if unchecked, lead to monopolies, and therefore to inefficiencies. I’ll get into that at some point in the future.
#MarketsNeedRegulationToBeTrulyEfficient
My coffee is waiting. Ta
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