What people don't like are the bad business practices, like buying up review sites (can anyone spell "conflict of interest"), locking in alcohol distributors to certain brands, etc. They're limiting consumer choice, locking out competitors and potentially misleading consumers.
I'll agree with you, if it tastes good it tastes good. McDonald's also still tastes good to me, but I abhor their business practices so I avoid eating there.
A lot of economists like to cite this model of a "rational agent," but consumers have more dimensions than just price and quality, increasingly they also see ethics as either a part of quality, or an additional dimension, when judging which product they should buy.
When restaurants and bars use an AB InBev-owned distributor and thus are restricted to only having AB InBev brands on tap, I lose the choice to drink one of those thousands of other beers when I'm there. Not going to a concert because the venue has the wrong beer distributor is not really tractable.
Yes, this was one of the thousands of other options. Emphasis on was. What guarantee do I have that once people move to another platform and start trusting it, they won't purchase that?
I'll agree with you, if it tastes good it tastes good. McDonald's also still tastes good to me, but I abhor their business practices so I avoid eating there.
A lot of economists like to cite this model of a "rational agent," but consumers have more dimensions than just price and quality, increasingly they also see ethics as either a part of quality, or an additional dimension, when judging which product they should buy.