It turns out that accommodating spoiled aristocrats who order shit they don’t need from halfway across the Earth on a whim has a cost, and let me tell you: that cost isn’t coming out of the executives’ salaries!
Every time you return something, you are adding data to a spreadsheet that returns the value of “fuck you.”
If free returns ended today there would be zero impact on prices. Come on.
Unconditional returns, sure, but it’s the bourgeoisie expecting unconditional returns from their investments.
There would definitely be a change in prices lol. They track all of this to the cent. Just because there’s price gouging doesn’t mean the cost of goods is completely unrelated to operating costs.
You’re right, the Capitalists should give up their wealth and their parasitic need for returns.
They won’t.
Since that’s the reality we inhabit, every time you make a return, you’re jacking up the prices of your future purchases.
They will always charge the maximum amount that they can! The only limit is our ability to pay and our ability to buy somewhere else.
That’s it.
You’re jacking up the prices by making purchases in the first place. Or rather, they’re jacking up prices because they know you’ll pay it - let’s be sure to put the blame squarely where it belongs! The blame is always on the ones setting the prices.
Since that’s the reality we inhabit, every time you
make a returnraise taxes, you’re jacking up the prices of your future purchases.
while companies post record profits? seems very close to the dreaded “we closed the stores due to theft 🥺”
Another oft-ignored cause of inflation: capitalism.
there are places where you can buy a laptop, use it for 364 days, then return it for a refund.
i think this is underbaked, no-conditions returns means they don’t have employees investigating/litigating legitimacy, i figure it only exists as a policy if someone figured the wages against the loses favored the company.
It’s always a risk assessment. If the cost of preventing something might go wrong exceeds the expected value of what it’s going to cost me to prevent it from happening, might as well let it happen in the small % of cases it happens and eat the loss.
now if they could make it a crime to disingenuously return things and have cops (public treasury) deal with it, lord knows you’d need a doctor’s note to return a malfunctioning vibrator, but there’s more pressing aspects of the profitability crisis they’d rather be bribing politicians over right now
