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Ban on ‘surveillance pricing’ could threaten discounts, retailers warn (www.thestar.com)

submitted 5 months ago by Aatube@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world

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In its long-awaited artificial intelligence strategy released Thursday, the Carney government said it will “strengthen its privacy laws to ensure that Canadians’ personal information is not used inappropriately, including for surveillance pricing.” Government officials did not give further details or clarify when asked if that will be an outright ban on the practice.

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[–] Steve@communick.news 82 points 5 months ago* (3 children)

I think they misunderstand what people are complaining about.
People don't want discounts for one person while another gets overcharged. It's a good thing if it threatens discounts. Everyone wants to pay the same price for the same thing.

Discounts can be annoying even when they're "fair"
It's annoying when something was discounted yesterday, and now you have to pay more. Or when you just bought something last week, but now you could have saved a bunch because it's some arbitrary special day. Temporary discounts of any kind are inherently unfair and manipulative.

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[–] schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works 28 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Tip: Some stores, realiizing you can return a product and re-buy it at the current discounted price, will retroactively price match themselves within the return window.

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[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 point 5 months ago

People don't want discounts for one person while another gets overcharged.

Yeah, maybe you have more faith in humanity than me, but I think there are tons of people who would be ok with this assuming that they're the ones getting the discount.