“That’s a bold play for a luxury brand whose leading competition comes in affordable bulk tins for home use.”
Here’s my soap box:
I expect the gasoline industry to act like assholes all the way to their solar-powered graves.
But seeing overpriced coffee try it boggles my mind.
The CEOs of Starbucks, movies, streaming television and music production have clearly alienated that one friend they could trust to tell them they’re being idiots.
In case any of the CEOs are reading along, I’m going to be that final friend to you now:
“The demand in your industry is something called highly elastic. That means that people given any motivation whatsoever to boycott your product will take decades, at minimum, to return to using it, if they ever do. It’s easier and more economical to just pay your workers a fair living wage. If you honestly can’t afford to pay a fair living wage, that is okay, you may stop now, no one actually needs your product.”
And for any really dumb CEOs reading along: “Home coffee grinders are pretty great.”
Yeah, same here. I am deeply pissed that they decided I could pay for a monthly subscription in exchange for their dropping my previous purchase history.
I guess, this is another boycott I got an early start on.
I feel like the party just started and I’m already out of snacks… /s
Avast! When there be no way to pay gold doubloons for a thing, I sit patiently in me boat and save me doubloons for a chance to legally purchase a collectors edition later.
I’ve heard tales of lost shows found on the high seas, but I take no part in that, myself. O’course, I’d never judge a soul who did.
But perhaps all good sailors do as I do. Perhaps they he equally unwilling to sail the friendly high seas on a VPN in search of lost treasure.
Surely Paramount will make good profits on this twisted venture. Yarrr.
If ye agree with me that this might be, I’ve a bridge I been meaning to sell to an investor as thoughtful at Paramount…
Dude whose job it is to rip off consumers says “consumers will lose”.
I’m sold. Pass that law. If the CC company bozos are against it, it’s probably a good thing.
This reads as “if our prices have to be competitive, we’re cancelling our bullshit programs where you could game back some of the money we took from you.”
Yeah. We know you won’t be able to afford that, because we will still have all of that money. That’s the point.
I imagine it probably helps that the Paramount app has permission to know seemingly everything happening on viewers phones. Might help tune the scripts or something. As assume that’s what the 14 required permissions are for.