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Dems Want to Ban Surveillance Pricing at Big Grocery Stores (gizmodo.com)
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[–] 0 points 8 months ago (5 children)

I wish they would allow the digital price tags and just make it so prices can only be changed once per day. Why is that not the obvious solution?

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  • [–] 8 points 8 months ago

    It's still easy and tempting to change the price frequently with a digital tag, even without surveillance on individuals. Without a third-party audit that keeps track of the price, you have no way of knowing whether a price has been changed unfairly. Paper sucks but it introduces friction.

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    What makes that better than regular fixed prices?

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    You can allow the labor saving aspect of digital price tags without allowing the price-gouging bullshit of variable pricing.

    Changing sku tags, doing markdowns and markups etc, are some of the more pain in the ass tasks in a big box store, or any store for that matter. Automating that wouldnt be such a bad thing, so long as it doesnt also allow variable pricing bs

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago

    Just for perspective, a store like walmart can have several hundred items that need to be changed within a day. That means someone that would usually have something better to do has to spend an entire shift going around farting with little paper tags. It's a massive waste of time and a task that nobody wants to do.

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