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Re:Why is it so hard to give Google money? by bryanrasmussen on Tuesday July 26, 2022 @03:29PM (#32242795)
If you serve a lot of customers but have lousy revenue you should have extra regulations which would probably drive you out of business because of the extra cost? Revenue seems a lot more reasonable metric.
Re:Why is it so hard to give Google money? by kelnos on Tuesday July 26, 2022 @03:46PM (#32243014)
Maybe if your business sucks that much that you don't have enough margin to treat your customers well when they have issues... well, maybe your business just shouldn't exist.
Re:Why is it so hard to give Google money? by majani on Tuesday July 26, 2022 @04:21PM (#32243446)
That's your opinion. There are areas such as supermarkets that are low margin by nature and most definitely should exist
Re:Why is it so hard to give Google money? by hellotomyrars on Tuesday July 26, 2022 @09:26PM (#32246013)
Supermarkets crucially already have a customer support infrastructure and you can physically go to them to work out issues. If the burden is simply to have human customer support you can speak to then the burden is already fulfilled.

It is absurd that it is impossible to speak to a human at Google unless you have a loud enough platform. Amazon is similar too in many cases. As an Amazon seller the robot once decided that the price for an item on sale wasn’t correct. I told the robot it was in fact correct. The customer support person who I was able to reach after an incredible runaround told me through text only communication that the solution was to change the price either higher or lower. There was no way they could manually verify it. The robot had decided. In the end it took multiple guesses of adjusting the price to figure out what the Amazon robot would accept. This is beyond stupid.

Re:Why is it so hard to give Google money? by nunez on Friday August 05, 2022 @08:25PM (#32363543)
that's surprising; every support interaction i've had with amazon has been incredibly positive, and i'm a nobody...
Re:Why is it so hard to give Google money? by hiptobecubic on Wednesday July 27, 2022 @12:29AM (#32246849)
It's stupid for you. It costs Amazon only some difficult to measure lost opportunity that can't even be cited during performance reviews.
Re:Why is it so hard to give Google money? by hellotomyrars on Wednesday July 27, 2022 @12:36AM (#32246883)
It is pretty stupid that the people who work at Amazon can’t even override the faceless algorithm that makes arbitrary decisions. I don’t care about the metrics. I care about common sense.
Re:Why is it so hard to give Google money? by monkeywork on Tuesday July 26, 2022 @10:00PM (#32246167)
And yet there are regulations around health and safety that supermarkets must follow.
Re:Why is it so hard to give Google money? by formerkrogemp on Wednesday July 27, 2022 @09:40AM (#32250263)
And yet, supermarkets close down quite often to make a political statement or when margins aren't sufficiently high enough. Kroger is fond of closing stores in areas threatening to raise wages.
Re:Why is it so hard to give Google money? by jyounker on Wednesday July 27, 2022 @01:26PM (#32253449)
That indicates that a local monopoly exists.