Re:Customers do not ask for software complexity
by jiveturkey on Monday April 27, 2020 @12:27PM
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enormous??? once you've located an item (say a low single digits of customers per item), the next <uncountable> number of customers now get to use that data. the number of annoyed customers will be in the "epsilon" fraction -- uncountably low.
and you can give an incentive to customers. give them a 10% discount on their total order when they checkout, if they've reported the correct location of an item. don't tell them about it until they checkout, to avoid gaming.
there's many more ideas here, i don't need to iterate through them all. i'm impressed by the lack of creativity on this subject.
> things can shift around over time.
not just that, but products come and go. it should be obvious that this is an ongoing task when stocking, not a one time inventory location task.
Pissing off an enormous number of customers in the process. You will run out of customers at the store willing to use such a useless app before the thing learns where the pasta is.
Your stock person idea makes sense if they keep the shelves stable, but "gut feeling" organizations tells me that things can shift around over time.