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, and to offer customers only on the moral products, which everyone gains from. | , and to offer customers only on the moral products, which everyone gains from. | ||
:Huh? Unless we are talking about some "Moral Product R Us" type of supermarket which i've never seen or heard of this doesn't ring true. Offering some morally inferior products may have it's advantages as the consumer can get better kicks from [[SRC]] when s/he can see what inferior product s/he did not choose? | :Huh? Unless we are talking about some "Moral Product R Us" type of supermarket which i've never seen or heard of this doesn't ring true. | ||
::Yes, exactly. Look up [[The Big Carrot]] organic supermarket in [[Toronto, Canada]]. Or equivalent chains in the USA. Carrot spent about four man years finding out if everything in their store had [[GMO]]s in it. If it did, they took it out of the store. They can probably charge an extra 2-3% for their products every year now, since they are the only store in Toronto that can say for sure "no GMO". Nice [[profit margin]] given that most supermarkets exist only on 1-3% margins to begin with. | |||
:Offering some morally inferior products may have it's advantages as the consumer can get better kicks from [[SRC]] when s/he can see what inferior product s/he did not choose? | |||
::True. Maybe a really bad product can be offered on the shelf with just a picture, saying "we will order this for you, but we'll have to tell your mother." | |||