[stonogo]

> I guess that's true, but I don't see the purpose of that comparison.

There is more noise online, so signal-boosting efforts are disproportionately effective there. That's all.

[lotsofpulp]

Based on accounts I’ve read of what vendors have to do in order to sell on Walmart shelves (most notably reduce their quality to let Walmart be the lowest price), I think that conflict of interest would actually make shopping on the internet better.