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Before going to the store to pick up some menstrual products for my partner, I shave and put on a full face of makeup so the cameras read me as female and don't give me the "clueless man" price gouge.
Imagine walking up to the products and watching the price go up. This will probably end in a lawsuit. Grab a product at x price and when you scan it it's y price. They can justify that in court, I don't care how business friendly the system is it's going to be struck down.
Well let's be clear about the tech they use. It's too slow to dynamically change based on who is shopping. The labels typically use eReader type displays which only update periodically for price updates. Need a 2450 cell battery that can last about 6 months with a single price change a week. Changing the prices more often drastically drains the battery life. And they require constant vigilance to make sure they haven't just randomly turned themselves off (seriously sometimes they randomly forget what price they should be showing).
I guess what I'm saying is if you want to ruin one of these stores those labels are expensive as fuck so bring a small jewelry kits and destroy as many as you can to fucking ruin a stores bottom line because no way in hell head office will approve sending out another thousand labels so they'll be forced to go back to paper labels.
They definitely have insurance and also you'll wind up in jail, so this seems like bad advice
Like with all theft and commerical sabotage don't get caught.
Would a high powered magnet fuck them like they do credit cards or hard drives?
I think you'd need a magnet strong enough to fuck up a kindle screen which I don't know if you can find those. Honestly you could just pop them off with a screw driver and take them. Or take the battery out and leave the shell the battery is the expensive part.
I fucking dare them to change the price on me when I'm at the store in my wheelchair lmao easiest $200k I'll ever make.
In Poland it's often a thing already with printed tags.
There's definitely a limit with how hard big corps can fuck people on pricing. Even whole foods/amazon got in trouble for incorrectly weighing and overcharging people for prepared foods.
currently? Where? I only see companies with one foot over the line waiting to see if the govt blows the whistle and it looks like the ref ain't blowing.
It's gonna accelerate even more. There's definitely a limit but it will be ours
It's mostly when they break the illusion of being "fair" like in the whole foods example or when someone price gouges during a natural disaster and enough people draw attention to it.
Kind of like with other injustices, the system will only make a token adjustment on the release valve when the pressure builds high enough.
Yeah, agreed. There's still a long way to go before we hit that hypothetical moment when we cannot take anymore. Thing is i just don't see the folks in charge not dragging us to that future.
I'm just using my personal observations to bolster this feeling but roll with me a minute take a look at cereal boxes for example. They're constantly morphing in size, shape, and price to find that sweet spot of how much we can take, but what they apparently cannot do is reduce "growth". They also can't seem to allow the rate of shrinkflation to slow down to where it's unnoticeable, the rate 'sustainable'.
They've already decided this is the line. We aren't getting raises, we aren't getting healthcare, we aren't getting food, we aren't getting anything from them unless we take it by means outside electoralism, and with a stance that firm and no release valve comin' from them they're creating a future where we'll have to.
Even if we only end up getting a release valve like The New Deal it'll come from all of us seeing the system is unbeatable from within, taking direct action and the power of our labor into our own hands... and i think (hope) that this hard-line stance they're taking will force a majority to understand what only a small portion do currently.
Kraft in Canada wants $6.50 for a box of their vegan mac & cheese.
Imagine being a customer service worker dealing with this shit, people already lose their fucking minds if "the price is wrong" even if they just read the wrong fuckin sign
I don't know ma'am, I just work here... thinking about no longer working here tho