The Coming Commodification of Life at Home

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Post by toufiqbarhamov » Tue, Dec 18, 2018, 4:44 PM UTC

The Coming Commodification of Life at Home
theatlantic.com

Re: The Coming Commodification of Life at Home

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Post by jpm_sd » Tue, Dec 18, 2018, 5:03 PM UTC

Is any of this data actually valuable? Or are these just more puffed-up business models that will fade away as the hype bubble pops?

Re: The Coming Commodification of Life at Home

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Post by gentran » Tue, Dec 18, 2018, 6:38 PM UTC

jpm_sd wrote: post #2

Is any of this data actually valuable? Or are these just more puffed-up business models that will fade away as the hype bubble pops?

Hopefully the latter

Re: The Coming Commodification of Life at Home

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Post by [deleted] » Tue, Dec 18, 2018, 6:46 PM UTC

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Re: The Coming Commodification of Life at Home

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Post by pasbesoin » Tue, Dec 18, 2018, 11:00 PM UTC

jpm_sd wrote: post #2

Is any of this data actually valuable? Or are these just more puffed-up business models that will fade away as the hype bubble pops?

Differential pricing, for one. Figure out when you can less/least delay, and bump pricing during that window.

I didn't face individual analysis, but I just recently paid $50 more for something than I would have a week before, or a week after, because I needed it then.

Kind of like the woman the other year who had Target figure out she was pregnant before her own family knew: Do you want Amazon to know when you're buying out of urgency?

(Or, having a third-party "data service" inform all your possible vendors of this?)