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maybe we must distinguish open retail (we can see their prices, like on a price comparison service) from friendly retail (they actually help us in the store)
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A '''Consumerium buying signal''' travels over the [[healthy buying infrastructure]] to the [[front end user]] of [[Consumerium Services]]. | A '''Consumerium buying signal''' travels over the [[healthy buying infrastructure]] to the [[front end user]] of [[Consumerium Services]]. | ||
This could be actually experienced by the user in a great many ways. The [[Signal Wiki]] should have no bias as to how the signal is delivered. That's the main reason the language IS so abstract right now, actually. | |||
*[[Web browser]] access to the [[Signal Wiki]] would be the default for in-home or in-office use, and might constitute the bulk of [[Consumerium Service access]]. However, it would not reach the actual [[point of purchase]]. This combined with [[Checkout Consumerium]] functionality, where you can grab the id's of products you just bought and take them out on you home or office computer. | |||
*We could distribute data on what's in the store in [[book]] or [[leaflet]] form, even customized book form. You could for instance slide a [[frequent buyer card]] into a slot, and get a printed book with [[price premium]] information customized to you, or generic information like [[score]]s for at least some subset of highlighted products. | |||
:This requires [[friendly retail]] although it might only be minimally friendly, i.e. having released price data for [[intershop comparison]], bragging about its low prices, it's possible to calculate [[score]]s for every product. | |||
:[[Coupon]]s might tie in well to this kind of system. | |||
*Data might get printed at the [[retail shelf]] [[display card]] or [[leaflet]] someday if some chain or region or nation decides to require it - the first step to [[Consumerium Country]]. This might be a way to positively market [[local food]], for instance, and could work with tie-ins to the [[Slow Food]] people. This requires [[friendly retail]]. | |||
*Customized and definitive buying advice, seen by the end user as a [[red light|red]]/[[yellow light|yellow]]/[[green light|green]] traffic-type '''signal''', or as a [[score]] easily translated into a [[price premium]], or as a note in [[Simple English]] about issues with, or merits of, the [[product]] at the [[retail shelf]]. | |||
:These would be expected to enable [[intrashop comparison]] of two products that the user is just about to buy, and it would be possible to get feedback on what you did buy, perhaps, if the [[checkout counter]] cooperates in the system. | |||
As a '''healthy signal''', it should be sent only over a [[healthy signal infrastructure]]. These might be standard TCP/IP networks, [[Bluetooth]] or [[radio]]. If it can be an [[audio]] signal, that's good. | |||
The exact means of delivery probably depends on the way the system is made [[self-funding]], what [[marketing tie-in]]s are possible, etc.. This is a task of the [[Consumerium Governance Organization]] and probably affects the [[Consumerium License]]. | |||