Elon Musk’s social-media company is suing a nonprofit that has accused the platform of allowing the proliferation of hate speech, escalating a continuing clash between the billionaire and the research group....
Statistically poverty, substance abuse, and dysfunctional families often correlate. Domestic abuse is in the mix too. No one can isolate one single cause, because the world doesn’t work in the oversimplified way we’d like it to....
William Weber, a LowEndTalk member, was raided by Austrian police in 2012 for operating a Tor exit node that was allegedly used to distribute child pornography. While he was not arrested, many of his computers and devices were confiscated. He was later found guilty of supporting the distribution of child pornography through his...
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I do Grab Food delivery and noticed that some shops purposely put different name on their Grab profile and actual signboard name. At first I thought it was just laziness or simply some people fucked up, an annoyance to us riders having to play hide and seek, but now I begin to feel like this is a deliberate ploy....
This is very interesting. Some clever people are playing with the system:
We already have a kitchen and staff available. We can attract some higher price range customers (and higher profit margin) if we give more meat and prettier boxes, and use a different business name that is not related to our mid-price business.
Where it gets insidious is when a single shop use multi terminals, spamming the marketplace. Customer don’t realise that the vast choice they see on the platform are actually them getting more of the same, and platform owners don’t mind because it makes their platform look thriving.
I think that’s actually quite common. Not only on food delivery etc, but also in consumer goods. Like, a standard factory that churns out peanut butter. The one with a certain brand label sells for RM 15 per jar but the one with a supermarket brand label sells for RM 9 per jar.
Even iPhone is also doing similar things to maximise profit. Back when things were simpler, they only sold iPhone n (instead of standard, pro, promax, mini etc) and the only variation available was the internal memory size. Memory size is literally a tiny memory chip that don’t cost much, but they can sell the bigger memory iPhone at a HIGH price to maximise profit from people who’s ok with spending, and sell smaller memory iPhone at a lower price so that they don’t lose the people who cannot afford to spend tons.
Airline tickets are also a good example of market segmentation. If you sell one price, you can’t earn extra from the spendy people and you can’t sell to the poor people. So you make many different tickets with slightly different advantages, and now the spendy people can buy the expensive tickets, and the poor folk can buy the cheap no-changes and no-refunds kind of tickets.
All the above examples (peanut butter, iPhone, air tickets) are quite normal example of market segmentation that sometimes appear in text books.
You can see that in other areas too. Same Toyota Vios with hugely different price, the difference being add ons that don’t cost that much (bigger wheels, side skirt, painted door handles, reverse camera)
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I do Grab Food delivery and noticed that some shops purposely put different name on their Grab profile and actual signboard name. At first I thought it was just laziness or simply some people fucked up, an annoyance to us riders having to play hide and seek, but now I begin to feel like this is a deliberate ploy....