This is social democracy btw

Hmmm. That's pretty wild.

I was a manager at a big box store for a while, and the general rule of thumb was to verify an error in pricing and then just mark it down at checkout for the client.

Usually, it was an old tag that was left up.

Or

It was an ad that the customer misread.

I don't recall there being a one-time price discrepancy law forcing me at penalty of jail to take 50 cents off a pack of pencils, we just did it because it's better in the long run to keep the customer happy than it is to get in a fight over pricing. If there was someone who was serially abusing this hospitality, then we might have a talk with them, or ban them from shopping in the store, like when someone was stealing our discounted labels and then putting them back up when they were in the store weeks later.

I also wasn't in Massachusetts...

You really should read this.

I made a post about it recently

https://lemmy.ca/post/58667188

I've only personally gotten these from Scene+, but I imagine all the other loyalty point systems would be doing the same if they had my contact info.

I plan to

My debit card. But see, the price rang up wrong before I paid.

That's why I suspected face recognition. I noted the price was wrong as the items were initially rang up and that there was no indication on the receipt of a discount, coupon, or sale.

We need slates of popular reform candidates for every position, including the president. Somehow there are no white populist reformers. The republican party is full of ambitious fake reformers, offering fake solutions to real problems, like blaming immigrants for the rich taking from our shares.

The democrats kill any popular reform in the cradle. That is their reason for being, to play good cop to republican bad cop, still apparently believing that republican attacks on elections is just performative and they won't follow through. That when the republicans seize ultimate power they will let those democrats retire in comfort with their millions.

But while we need a party all it's own, of populist reform fit to each district that agrees on the general principle that the rich shouldn't be allowed to cheat and gouge working people, that party should well take democratic nominations. The only way out is to replace the democratic establishment. Get rid of super delegates, cancel all contracts with consultants, all contracts with everyone, and start over from scratch, with new people in every position from top to bottom.

Leaving the establishment in those positions will just lead to sabotage and infighting. Like Corbynn in the UK where the left got drummed out of the party to pave the way for the Starmer faction to cancel the right to trial by jury, to put palantir and their ilk in charge of making secret social scores after they id every ip and account with id's and faces under the guise of age checks to protect the children, the same children they are covering for the rapists of with Epstein I would add. They cancelled the right to protest, then the defenses in court that got non guilty verdicts, on top of and before the bad faith terror proscriptions against dissenters of foreign policy, which is what the purge was all about, Israel, and the all importance of Israel makes sense only when you realize Israel has them dead to rights on raping children and other misdeeds. Lawmakers themselves, but also the rich that the remaining non purged lawmakers all work for. Academics, swells of all sorts, and we only know about the tip of the iceberg just in that epstein honeypot, who knows what else they had going on.

Point being, leaving the establishment in there dooms us to fascism. There is no future with them in charge. With their people still in their positions, they care about purging the left, not beating democrats, just like in the UK, where Corbynn didn't take control of the party and enforcement mechanisms and the left were all purged under false pretenses often in demonstratably false allegations. As shown in the Labor Files, leaked party emails to Al Jazeera, that I found illuminating to explain the establishment parties across the west, how they are throwing us into the arms of the far right. And betraying us themselves to a larger degree every year.

That has basically never been true for US parties, because they're not really parties.

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

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.