Editing Talk:Consumerium buying signal

[[Intershop comparison]] might operate by web facilities, since one typically does not have both [[barcode]]s available anyway at the moment one decides which store to go to.

:Intershop comparison is doable '''only if''' [[friendly retail]] allow their stock information or [[product catalogue]] to propagate outside the [[legacy system]]s of the store. I really think that most retailers would not be interested in cooperating on this eventhough there is no mention of price information leaving the shop exept in [[consumer]]s own wet-ware memory 

:If product catalogues are available then composite signals, score averages, percentages of [[boycott]]ed [[product]]s, [[brand]]s and [[companies]] could be done as [[Intershop comparison]] functionality--[[User:Juxo|Juxo]] 17:30, 15 Mar 2004 (EET)

::Let's call this situation [[open retail]], and it includes every shop whose prices are already visible for [[intershop comparison]] in an existing [[price comparison service]]!  So there are really quite a lot of retailers so open.

::It doesn't require true [[friendly retail]] since I can hand the book to the consumer in the parking lot, or somewhere else that [[freedom of speech]] applies.  And yes we need a link to that since we have to know the limits of our rights in this respect!  So [[open retail]] might try to drive you off the sidewalk but [[friendly retail]] won't, and will invite you in.  But you have the same data about both.