Dynamic pricingPrice gouging. FTFY.remember if you see someone shoplifting food no the fuck you didnt
Especially if you work there.
honestly the best part about working at a supermarket was delivery day when i could weave through the maze of pallets and sleep on the paper towels behind everything like a fort. i sure as fuck aren’t going to report anyone shoplifting food.
Thank you for your service in working minimum effort at a giant corpo
If my local store switches to digital price tags to do this I’m just going to gather as many as I can and flush them down the toilet.
Let’s call it what it is: price discrimination.
In other news, shoplifting is inexplicably on the rise in shops featuring dynamic pricing…
We can’t compete against these internet stores. People just don’t respect brick and mortar and buying locally anymore /s
Some American grocery stores already tested the waters by posting armed guards in its stores. This article is a few years old, but the precedent stands.
https://retailwire.com/discussion/hy-vee-creates-its-own-armed-security-squad-to-deter-crime/Hy-Vee last week announced the introduction of an in-house armed security team to manage theft and in-store disturbances.
The Midwest grocery chain said in a statement that it has long worked with third-party contractors or off-duty law enforcement that work in a security capacity. The goal of bringing it in-house is “to create a consistent look for the security team and consistent approach to customer service and security across all [its] stores.”
slavery is legal in jails (in the US)
Then I won’t be going to that supermarket.
and then there will be a really popular AI driven phone app that you will use to scan items and find out if you’re being ripped off or not
Not quite the same thing, but I used an LLM to cobble together a HTML file that allows me to search for products on Coles, Woolies, Aldi and Amazon at the same time in the same window (via frames and a Firefox extension to get around some security settings).
Works a treat when planning our big shops for the week, and has already saved us hundreds of dollars since Jan.
It is morally correct to shoplift from stores that do this.
I’m going to start dynamic payments. “Oh, between 6-9pm I pay 10% less.”
Thanks. I hate it.
Portland banned it for housing. Time to ban it for everything else!
Free epaper displays!
Great, I have a very bad feeling about this, given the possible crisis of 2026.
They already do that, just not as frequently. They change price tags of items every day by hand
Right? This isn’t a question of if, more like how often
If they want to do dynamic pricing, maybe we’ll just have to start dynamic shopping.
It’s weird, the higher the prices get, the worse my memory and aptitude with self service checkouts gets.
Don’t you do that already? Do you just go to one store and buy meat, fish vegetables, alcoholics, cleaning supplies and so on in the same place?
