Capitalism Will Eat Itself
Wireless Froogle. As Google Labs explains it,
At an electronics store and shopping for a digital camera? Whip out your cell phone and search for lower prices online using Froogle. Never wonder if you paid too much again.
Internet commerce has long promised to "
level the playing field in terms of prices, but merchants, in general, have not liked the idea: they'd rather have customers in the dark. Maybe Google has enough social inertia to push this through.
(There's the social aspects of this to consider as well: I live in a relatively small town in the Adirondacks. There are many things I purchase locally at higher cost than I could on the Internet simply because I want to support local businesses.)
[via
Aaron Swartz]
Posted by johndan at February 26, 2004 04:08 PM
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