dynamic pricing
barely measurable [to consumers]
/goose meme
If the dynamic pricing is barely noticeable, then why do the stores need it?
If consumers can’t opt out of spying and data collection while they are buying food, then these companies shouldn’t exist. How unethical do grocery stores have to be before we end their privatization?
How is it legal for a price to be different between when you read the price on the shelf and when they charge you?
It is not legal to charge a different price at the register. Also, it would be quite difficult to ensure the price you pay at the register matches the price you saw on the shelf ten minutes ago.
If you suspect they are changing prices on you from the time you leave the shelf, take a photo of the price. If it’s different at the register, you know it was changed.
Yeah, no. Ban the tags. Thank you.
It’s not that granular. They’re going to use surge pricing, so when you shop is going to matter a lot. The tag will match the till. Going to buy beer and hot dogs on game day? Surge pricing!
I can only see it working when the prices are changed for a full day, after the store is closed/before they open.
I can see how it would be feasible to change each day. I still hate it though.
Why? I can match the till and tag automatically and slip in a 30 minute grace period between. The number of customers who would be impacted would likely be marginal.
It definitely takes me longer than 30 mins to get through the store.
But the “why” is that I think a single customer being overcharged by this system is too many. I know it happens a lot by accident at the moment because staff screw up the paper price tags, but having it by design is no longer an honest mistake.
And worse, the answer to this problem is probably going to be “facial recognition” and I hate that even more.
Grocery stores change their store music based on age groups and other characteristics that tend to visit at various times. Here’s a mediocre source, I can’t find one anymore that called out stores targeting specific demographics of people based on time of day.
So to me personally, I could infer that if they know old people shop on weekday mornings and young people on weekday nights and weekends, then fiddling around with the price every hour based on perceived ability-to-pay may amount to price-discrimination by age group, gender or ethnicity.
Ive seen the tags, but pretty sure dynamic pricing breaks the law.
This is just discrimination. They’re trying to figure out how to squeeze every last cent out of our pockets. They’ve already squeezed us as it is! If I can, I’ll avoid any place that does this.
I wonder how difficult it’ll be to mess with them. Can they be hacked? How easy can they be broken?
Edit: Actually, the only way I would accept this is if they had a database online where everyone could scan and scrape the data. If it was constantly being analyzed and they could prove they weren’t screwing people, then sure, why not. It actually might convince me to shop there more if that were the case. That would probably be more fair than what they do now. As it stands, it’s not like we can see how they change prices day to day all that efficiently. But I could see how they could use these to abuse prices a ton.
Well it’s time to get a faraday bag for my phone.
The ones that I have seen still need someone to go and change he price they don’t have power.
I saw one in Australia updating while I was looking at it. It was changing to a sale price, and it was very noticeable that it was changing. But it seems that it can be done remotely.
Do they not require power to display?
If they’re eink, they retain the image for a very long time (like, months) after power is removed.
Ah, thank you.
