I believe the amount that people actually spend at a store is a better measure of the value they derive from it than their voting could be.
The amount of money I spend in a shop is not necessarily proportional to how close I want to live to it. If I make 100 small purchases at $10 each, I probably want it closer to my home than the one where I make 1 purchase at $1000.
But just this point is a rabbit hole of questions in itself.
If we equipped every store with tracking devices that measured the amount of time spent by people visiting (!!!!), that might incentivize making products really hard to find in the store, or making really long lines, so people spend more time there.
If it’s the raw number of times people spend visiting the store, I am sure there are ways to game that too (“visit us 10 times this week for 10% off your next purchase!”). There could be laws against that, but..
The amount of money I spend in a shop is not necessarily proportional to how close I want to live to it. If I make 100 small purchases at $10 each, I probably want it closer to my home than the one where I make 1 purchase at $1000.
But just this point is a rabbit hole of questions in itself.
If we equipped every store with tracking devices that measured the amount of time spent by people visiting (!!!!), that might incentivize making products really hard to find in the store, or making really long lines, so people spend more time there.
If it’s the raw number of times people spend visiting the store, I am sure there are ways to game that too (“visit us 10 times this week for 10% off your next purchase!”). There could be laws against that, but..