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Wanting everything is not the problem. Always getting what we want is.

Redotting from Tim in 'printable' mode

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Everyone's heard about the Stanford Prison Experiment -- here's more about the meta-experiment...

I think allowing customers to move things would be total chaos. But that doesn't mean it wouldn't work or be interesting. A bookstore is probably one of the less well suited retail stores for this. I bet it would work at somewhere like Goodwill, where the merchandise is disorganized and non-fungible anyway.

While we're talking about moving things from online to physical retail stores, customer reviews sounds like something that could be interesting (lots of bookstores already have this). I want to go to the grocery store and start "reviewing" the food I bought.

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