You know that mom and pop store? The one that has the most noble, most generous owners ever? Even they are overcharging you. Because that’s how stores work; they’ve built the foundation, done the advertising and prep work, to get unreliable rates of customers.
How I think of it is, it trades spontaneous windfall purchases (on the store’s part) for reliability and consistency. The latter helps pay for employees putting their product on a stable trend, more than constantly chasing some new trend for profitability.
Subscriptions are often stupid and anticonsumer. Not always.
This isn’t so gigabrained as it sounds.
You know that mom and pop store? The one that has the most noble, most generous owners ever? Even they are overcharging you. Because that’s how stores work; they’ve built the foundation, done the advertising and prep work, to get unreliable rates of customers.
How I think of it is, it trades spontaneous windfall purchases (on the store’s part) for reliability and consistency. The latter helps pay for employees putting their product on a stable trend, more than constantly chasing some new trend for profitability.
Subscriptions are often stupid and anticonsumer. Not always.