[projectvrm] Sunday Reading

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These are too relevant to let pass by:

<http://business.time.com/2013/08/07/meet-the-low-key-low-cost-grocery-chain-being-called-wal-marts-worst-nightmare/>

<http://business.time.com/2013/07/29/how-two-german-owned-sister-supermarket-brands-became-hot-trendsetters-in-the-u-s/>

<http://business.time.com/2013/07/11/a-disloyalty-movement-supermarkets-and-customers-drop-loyalty-card-programs/>

<http://business.time.com/2012/08/21/will-customers-love-or-hate-personalized-grocery-prices/>

All are by Brad Tuttle, in Time Magazine.

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I also ran across this looking through old email for something else.

Begin forwarded message:

> Subject: Chomsky Quote
> Date: November 27, 2008 8:48:02 PM EST
> 
> This is from his recent interview on Democracy Now! talking about the Obama 
> victory but I think this quote explains a lot more than politics.
> 
> The goal of advertising is to create uninformed consumers who will make 
> irrational choices. Those of you who suffered through an economics course 
> know that markets are supposed to be based on informed consumers making 
> rational choices. But industry spends hundreds of millions of dollars a 
> year to undermine markets and to ensure, you know, to get uninformed 
> consumers making irrational choices.