Re:Customers do not ask for software complexity
by whateveracct on Sunday April 26, 2020 @04:18PM
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What you're describing would be a nonstarter in retail in my experience. They care too much about customer experience to amortize the cost of a bad experience. Typically, step 1 is capturing data via added company process about the thing you're gonna automate. A lot more boring than what you describe.
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Re:Customers do not ask for software complexity
by jiveturkey on Tuesday April 28, 2020 @12:39PM
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no, that's exactly what i described. a paid existing employee collecting location data while stocking.
i actually do think that customer-finding is a good approach, but it's up to the client to decide isn't it. the comment i'm replying to was about impossible requests by clueless clients, not about bad but possible implementations.
even if the idea is in fact bad, which again i dispute, it's always good to give a client an alternative that stinks, so that the idea you want them to accept seems "obviously" good. i forget what this technique is called.
EDIT: after an hour of searching, I believe it's called a "duck". based on the legend of Battle Chess, but of course the technique has existed long, long before Battle Chess.