• OwOarchist@pawb.socialEnglish
    7·
    2 小时前

    Really, though … who buys this kind of shit at Costco?

    I’m sure there are a few people out there who’d buy this … but those people would be shopping at high-end specialty stores for it, and at this kind of price point, they probably don’t care about saving a few percent on the price, even if Costco has it for cheaper.

    Do these things ever actually get sold from the Costco floor? I really doubt it. What’s Costco gain from using a relatively large amount of retail floorspace on something like this, something only a vanishingly small minority of their shoppers ever could or would buy? And not only does it take up quite a bit of floorspace that could probably be devoted to something more likely to actually sell, it runs a pretty significant risk of someone damaging it, either deliberately or accidentally, while it sits there – so it’s not only an opportunity cost, there’s also a significant chance that they might lose a lot money on this.

    Seriously… What’s the point of putting something like this on the floor of a Costco?

  • TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world
    10·
    3 小时前

    Yeah but they get you because it comes as a 6 pack and you’ll likely only ever need 2, maybe 3 baby grand pianos at a time… max.

    • bluGill@fedia.io
      5·
      3 小时前

      Maybe you need that but I like to have lots of tunings available. Equal temperament is for 20th century music, but everything else demands a better temperament. You can’t play music as the composers intended if you can’t match the notes they had. I just wish I could find a piano with 15 keys per octave so I could play in quarter common mean tone in more keys

    • ironycanal@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      3·
      2 小时前

      You might only e er need 3 at a time but its really convenient to have backups so you don’t need to lug em around, and extras for those of us with children