Craniometric scans have detected Occidental Haplogroup B4 presence, adjusting ham sandwich prices accordingly...
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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
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Probably end in a lawsuit
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.
Grab a product at x price and when you scan it it’s y price.
In Poland it's often a thing already with printed tags.
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Another reason they want to ban facemasks
That's silly they should just scan the mask and offer coupons for n95s and cold medicine etc
I wonder how long this last until someone breaks them or tik tok mafia starts sharing RFID chip hacks for free meat.
This is going to be defended among the general public with claims like 
"Actually, if you game the system you get discounts, so only stupid people will suffer from this," in much the same way that McDonald's price hikes were excused/justified, isn't it? 
don't forget 'if you don't like it shop somewhere else!' most 'somewhere else's available being premium stores or places doing the exact same thing
yeah i'll take my angry customership to target which already has digital tags, and costs more money or whole foods, which costs even more money
'if you don't like it shop somewhere else!'
"Vote with your wallet!" feels especially hollow when the other choices were hollowed out and crushed by economy of scale tactics.
Fortunately, where I am now, there's a lot of good local food, including farmer's markets and actual farms open to the public to buy things directly.
There's a McDonald's and a few other such franchises here and there... but to my delight, most of the time, they seem nearly deserted. 
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doing my grocery shopping in a goddamn morphsuit to avoid getting gouged
Printing out a bunch of those "we fed 10,000 faces in to the computer this was what the average nana looks like" faces for each demographic category and wearing them as masks to see which race/age/gender is being offered the lowest prices.
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This sounds so cruel and dystopian.
Surge pricing is just another name for price gouging.
I mean knock yourself out, but I'm still ringing up every item as a 50¢ can of generic tomato soup.
I'm like 99% sure Walmart's self checkouts has started doing random false positives for bad ringups. Last two times I've been there I'll be swiping my stuff and despite getting the beep telling me it's been scanned it'll throw an alert to call someone over saying I added stuff to my bags without scanning. Then I had to wait while they went through my shit.
It's likely 'random' in the same way TSA random pat-downs are
Worse! I'm needlessly shamed and I don't even get my junk fondled! 
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Partner: Honey why are you putting ICP face paint on?
Me: Going grocery shopping.
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During a hurricane the price of water is going to shoot up like a fucking cricket match. What a cursed society we live in
The only time I've personally seen price controls is during hurricane season. Hopefully, some company will do this shit, the government will actually do something, and then these things are killed forever.
Why even use labels at that point? Just use facial recognition at check-out to match customers to financial data and charge personalized prices based on income.
personalized prices based on income.
Every price becomes a % of people's income
The Gotah Program has been realised
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Taking measures that make shoplifting obviously more moral than actually paying for things, absolute galaxy brained moves.
Capitalism does inspire innovation; though everyone who is not an investor or executive that can capitalize from said 'innovation' finds it repulsive.
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Fuckin' Kroger. Moved to an area where they and other big stores are the only options.
Where I used to live, they had a sub called "Lucky's Market" that was semi-fancy, but had decent deals. They killed it to move in directly, dragged their feet, then covid hit and they pivoted to deliver only. So I was already bitter having to shop there.
My opinion improved a bit when people there said they were unionized. Decent deals (but you gotta use their stupid card).
Then their self checkouts started yelling if you move too quickly or slowly scanning.
Now this shit.
If you see this, you leave the store and never return. And if you work there, you want to burn down the store first.
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Did you know you can buy the tags online? and with some electrical know-how you can make them say what you want. A little time and effort and now you have a tag that says whatever price you want on it. If they got switched at the store at that point, well, how would you know? Just work in teams to make the switch less obvious on the cameras.
Even though this wouldn't change the price at check out, I love the chaos this would cause
I almost feel bad for the minimum wage clerks who would have to deal with the angry deep discount shoppers.
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I would simply not shop at the dystopian store center.
I’ll be surprised if this isn’t exactly what they find, that large numbers of customers avoid Kroger because of this
The Walgreens near me just quietly removed those freezer door screens that just give you information about the products in the freezer and went back to, you know, just being glass you can see through to see what’s in the freezer. So yeah wouldn’t surprise me if this ends up backfiring on them.
You just know that some coked out nepo baby MBA dipshit came up with this nonsense and thought they was really cookin
I think it was a case of one of the major Walgreen people also being invested in the company behind the screens.
Capitalism really eating its ass smh my dick head
Oh, lol, it's even more of a clusterfuck. There is/was a whole lawsuit over the rollout.
The dispute arose after Walgreens installed Cooler Screens’ technology, which replaces traditional cooler doors with digital screens that play targeted ads, The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported Monday (Oct. 2). Cooler Screens is now suing Walgreens, claiming the pharmacy chain obstructed a nationwide rollout of the technology and demanded its removal from stores.
Reached for comment by PYMNTS, Cooler Screens said in an emailed statement: “Walgreens is trying to deflect attention from its poor retail performance by falsely blaming others for its problems and poor stock performance.”
The kicker!
The company is backed by Microsoft, and its co-founder is Gregory Wasson, a former CEO of Walgreens.
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I do think the main reason behind that was the stupid freezer door screen company went out of business and all of their freezer door screens fucking bricked lmfao
When that happens, the underlying code ought to be forced to go open source so anyone who bought the product/service can at least keep it running in house.
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Wow, just like in Steven Spielberg's Minority Report!
That’s the final straw, I’m giving up food once and for all.
Guess I'm wearing juggalo makeup and a some clothes that I'll define my shape next time I'm doing a shop lifting raid at Kroger.
This violates an absolute necessity for a market to qualify as a free market, imo. In order to have a free market, the consumer needs to have access to enough information to make an informed choice (which is why healthcare can't be a free market, but I digress). If I can't even know what the price of a bunch of bananas is going to be, I just have to YOLO it at the register and hope the AI didn't wig the fuck out because of a flash stock market crash or something and mark them up 100,000x between the shelf and the register, it's hard to argue the case for that being a free market. I guess it still technically is, because I could always just say "take the bananas off, please" at the register, but I'm sure these geniuses will come up with something to try and prevent that.
To those who say they wouldn't shop there, there's a lot of folks who don't have a lot of choice in grocers; there's plenty enough towns and communities that have just one (or none, and you just have to drive, if you can afford a car, or else go wherever your massively insufficient local transit system will take you). I wouldn't choose to shop at a store that did this, but then I also have that privilege. I also think another big question to ask is what happens if the big grocery chains collude to more or less implement this together?
grocery price fixing? Couldn't imagine.
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I’m going to avoid Kroger all together by not moving to the midwest. They really fucked up this time
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