[jjmccoolguy]

I do love all this conjecture on the titling (and your comment that women's clothing is an important subject helps me feel a bit validated in my time spent on this). I categorize it as weird because it's quite niche, there's no actual call to action or news story, and I spent waaaaay too much time on it.

[hownottowrite]

Ha! I thought as much.

Women’s apparel is a 600B industry. It is highly segmented, and literal armies of people analyze category and product performance across millions of skus. So spending a lot of time on something like this is definitely not unusual.

[owenmarshall]

It's really fun to see the moment people realize things like this exist outside their bubble of knowledge.

I had some first and second-hand knowledge around pricing household appliances. There's a common assumption that "the manufacturer says 'charge X'", the retailer charges X+Y% and you all go home happy. And you could not be further from the truth if you tried: pricing is an insanely complicated process with negotiation from both sides and monitored by an army of secret shoppers to keep both sides honest.

[dahart]

One of the reasons I like Hacker News is seeing all the people who will commit to days/weeks/months of work just to satisfy their curiosity. You’re in good company, this isn’t weird by HN standards.

[clairity]

fwiw, i think you can drop the '.com' from the title for a smoother punny title without ambiguity: "Goodwill.com Hunting" -> "Goodwill Hunting" since the movie is "Good Will Hunting". =)