Re:Website Search Hurts My Feelings
by lukevp on Tuesday December 26, 2023 @11:39AM
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Bad for the store you mean? Because the customer doesn’t convert (buy) something if it says “hurry only 1 left in stock” because everyone knows that store inventory is inaccurate and they ultimately don’t have 1 in stock, they have 0 in stock?
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Re:Website Search Hurts My Feelings
by thaumasiotes on Tuesday December 26, 2023 @11:49AM
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The way I interpret the comment, it says this:
A. [explicit claim; humorous] Analytics confirm that, if you show people whether products are in stock locally, they won't buy those products on your website.
B. [by implication] This is bad, because it "lowers" your sales. So you can't display this information.
C. [by implication] The retailers are making a mistake - the reason people don't buy products on the website when availability information is displayed is that they go to the store and buy the product there.
D. [summing up] If you measure something you don't care about, you will end up doing things that make you look like an idiot.
close enough
Re:Website Search Hurts My Feelings
by underlipton on Tuesday December 26, 2023 @12:40PM
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That's not a good explanation. Either GGP was being sarcastic or is corpo-brained. GP was confused because, unfortunately, both are equally likely these days.