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Dynamic pricing could be coming to your local supermarket (www.abc.net.au)

submitted 8 months ago by Beep@lemmus.org to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 82 points 8 months ago (10 children)

I will institute my own "dynamic pricing" scheme if this ever happens

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[–] Thatuserguy@lemmy.world 35 points 8 months ago (5 children)

Is it really dynamic if the price is always "free"?

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[–] Winter_Oven@piefed.social 13 points 8 months ago (3 children)

surely negative numbers are in the cards? since we deserve the compensation for all the trouble

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[–] philanthropicoctopus@thelemmy.club 6 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Wait for all the codeberg projects tryna break these things

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[–] NannerBanner@literature.cafe 5 points 8 months ago (1 child)

Finally, a practical reason to have a flipper zero or similar.

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[–] philanthropicoctopus@thelemmy.club 2 points 8 months ago

Haha, that's a perfect application for an otherwise almost useless (but incredible) device

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[–] ParlimentOfDoom@piefed.zip 6 points 8 months ago

If the price changes for them specifically, yes. That's the entire concept they're pushing here.

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[–] philanthropicoctopus@thelemmy.club 9 points 8 months ago

Its much easier than you'd think.

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[–] GalacticSushi@piefed.blahaj.zone 4 points 8 months ago* (2 children)

I don't know what you're talking about, I'm obviously not gonna steal anything. Sure, accidents happen from time to time. The supermarket decided to replace their cashiers with self checkout operated by random non-employees, after all. If I happen to ring up filet mignon as a Roma tomato, I think that's just the inevitable result of outsourcing your labor to untrained civilians with no incentive to accurately do the job .

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[–] ranzispa@mander.xyz 1 point 8 months ago

Self checkout is only a valid option if you are stealing. No, I'm not going to do your job to increase your profits by having less employees. Fuck those things.

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[–] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 1 point 8 months ago

This reminds me of Bill Burr's bit on the subject… "Twenty years, I thought I was a standup comedian. Now apparently I'm moonlighting as a fucking bag boy."

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