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Dynamic pricing could be coming to your local supermarket (www.abc.net.au)
submitted 8 months ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] 26 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (7 children)

Should be against the law to change the price after the shop opens at something like a grocery store. Nobody should be able to shop anywhere where the price you pick it up at can change by the time you get to the checkout.

Edit: Maybe there could be some exception for mid day price changes if you emptied the entire store of customers first, but enforcing something like that seems difficult.

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

    Issue is that haggling is actually legal in many countries.

    So at the cashier they will make you an offer, which, if you pay, accept.

    Now with technical support making individual offers becomes pretty easy and effordless on their end, but if you are in a hurry you don't have that technical support to make a counter offer that effordless... So the shopper is at an disadvantage. Either way, your reaction, wherever you buy or not will train the AI of the store to extract the maximum amount of money of the broad customer base. If some people are priced out of living, they probably don't care.

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

    Haggling might be fine but they have to honor price tags.

    If I'm in a grocery store and I see $1.00 they can't change it and try to charge me $1.10, and when I object and say it was $1.00 it shows $1.10 now.

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

    They do that anyway, but usually prices going down.

    e.g. yellow stickers going on things that will expire soon.

    You've not lived if you haven't watched two pensioners fight to the death over a 20p pack of Greek yoghurt.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

    That's a little different.

    Items that can expire get marked down at some point during the day, but they aren't changing the normal price of the item. If there's 20 packs of chicken breasts on the shelf, 5 or 6 might get the sticker.

    There's no guarantee that the one you have would have even gotten a sticker, and if you're savvy enough, you might have intentionally chosen the pack with the earliest most recent packed on date, or gone late enough to be after the mark down time near the end of the day (at least where I am)

    They aren't just going up and marking down the main price on everything, and its also always down, never up.

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