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Re:The Perils of Private Provision of Public Goods by HenryBemis on Saturday March 07, 2020 @04:35PM (#22514286)
I bet SBUX can easily issue a report with the traffic pre & post policy change. They measure everything from sales, identify unique customers (debit/credit cards), WiFi connections, etc. It would be easy to show a report how this policy change lead to which results for each store/city/state. And they also have the analytics capabilities to also layer this by richness/poverty levels for each point of sale.
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Re:The Perils of Private Provision of Public Goods by Scoundreller on Saturday March 07, 2020 @05:08PM (#22514528)
The interesting aspect of the study is that they compared Starbucks to nearby cafes/restaurants. So nearby locations could have had a 10% increase while Starbucks had a 3% increase.

While SBUX has all that data, they would only see their own data.

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