Editing Consumerium:Intermediate channel page

A [[Consumerium:Itself|Consumerium]] '''intermediate channel page''', e.g. for [[friendly retail]] is an [[intermediate page]] that details every [[comprehensive outcome]] of buying any [[Consumerium:intermediate commodity page|commodity]], [[Consumerium:intermediate product page|product]], or [[Consumerium:service|service]] from a given '''channel'''.

'''Channel''' relates to the last link in the [[w:supply chain|supply chain]] from [[manufacturer]] to [[consumer]] ie. it is a '''location of a [[retail]] chain''', for simplicitys sake we are going to make the assumption that all [[location]]s of the chain carry the same goods (at least in the begining). It can also be a [[restaurant]], [[bar]] or [[cafe]].

===Company===
Link to the [[company]] that owns and/or franchisees this channel

===Class of a channel===
Channels have to be divided into separate classes to determine the likeliest product portfolio a channel will have. We will focus on [[food]] delievery channels in the begining with the goal of recording close to 100% of all major channels so that these can be referenced from [[product]] pages which list the possible places a certain product may be found and bought or not. These classes are (feel free to add):

*Hypermarket
*Supermarket
*Market
*Convenience store
*Kiosk
*Restaurant
*Bar
*Cafe

===Fair trade===
*Are [[fair trade]] goods available and since when they have been available. List of [[product group]]s where fair trade goods are available and dates they were introduced to the inventory noting if some goods are only occasionally available or not thru-out the chain.

===Private labels===
List of [[Private label]]s (ie. specially made and packaged for this chain or a purchasing or a logistics alliance)
 
===Trollspeak===
[[Consumerium Services]] manage these in the [[Research Wiki]].  Differences such as the [[packaging]] or [[transport]] method or [[waste disposal]] policy mean that the same [[product]] can have a drastically different impact based on how it is bought:  consider buying organice rice in bulk that is transported via ship vs. buying it in small packages that are [[FedEx]]ed by air right to your door...!

Such pages help people identify [[healthy signal infrastructure]] concerns and make choices to, e.g. minimize [[tantallum]] use, or maximize [[Consumerium Service access]]. See [[buy book]] for examples of how this might be done.  

Note that we probably are somewhat more forgiving of various bad practices by suppliers essential to build out the infrastructure initially, but that we must swap out bad suppliers for good ones over time.  These pages might go away when the [[healthy signal infrastructure]] is stable all over the planet!