by waaytoomuchintothis » Wed Jul 18, 2018 5:42 pm
I suspect that the behavioral similarities between NASCAR and TV wrestling are not coincidental. Corporate "market-think" is the same where ever you look. Consumers only matter when they buy, or refuse to buy. Corporate responses are to find other consumers to replace the ones they offended, or give the consumers what they want. The insidious thing is that around half of consumers who are furious at corporate domination will cave in eventually, and it is known to marketeers that this is true. Thinking that a corporation (NASCAR, race car owners, sponsors, etc, etc), much less a multinational manufacturer, responds to consumer demand is fantasy, like it or not.
It is a huge undertaking to sell a corporation on anything for consumers. It goes against everything they were taught in their silly business courses in college that they were taking while you were actually studying something worthwhile. The fact that these four cars are going to happen is incredibly rare and there is a huge debt owed to those who campaigned for it. It is an aberration, it just doesn't happen normally.
This is why "resetting" is done in supermarkets and most large chain stores of all kinds, so that what you want is pointlessly moved to where you can't easily find it. The assumption is that you are so stupid that you will "impulse buy" what you see as you go looking for what you came to buy. My plan is to "borrow" the car of the idiot in an overpriced suit at my grocery headquarters and park it in San Francisco in the docklands, then take the keys back to him and say, "Go find it". Seems fair to me. We'll see how many cars he buys while he's looking for it.