It won't. There've been sales before all this tracking. Only thing it threatens is raising the price arbitrarily for individuals.

Can you imagine as an old person you hang outside of a grocery store: psst, hey kid I'll give you a dollar to go buy me some back medicine. They know my card number and its 50% cheaper if you buy it for me.

Won't somebody think of the scammers?!

I'd consider that a worthwhile trade.

[X] Doubt.

Now do a ban on rent surveillance and any system that uses “data” to “adjust” rent.

These people depend on us having goldfish memory… they be right to a great extent.

Boo fuckin' hoo.

Charge what you need for a modest net profit. Surveillance pricing is just the perfect refinement of capitalist cruelty.

LOL, OH NOOOOOO. "Let us absolutely rape your wallet, or else..."

Discounts, sales and similar tactics have worked fine for decades if not centuries, without customers being recorded.

Their claim is bullshit.

Rofl nice try, assholes

Fine by me. If it's stupid surge pricing with occasional "discounts" or a straight price for everything then I'll take the later.

They're trying to convince us that surveillance pricing actually benefits us. Lol

Oh yeah, that's the problem... All the companies falling over themselves to give out extra discounts to consumers.

“Why is the government stopping us from charging our customers LESS??”

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.

Your “discounts” are being subsidized by someone else’s over charges.

What ever happened to charging enough to cover your overhead and have middle class life?

There have been discounts back in time where retailers did not have personal information on that level. What happened to stickers like "10% off" for all customers?

"discounts"

God they're so transparent.

"But the discounts we want to give our customers!!!"

Kill it with fire.

I have already pre-boycotted digital pricetags in brick and mortar stores. I will just drop all my shit and leave. You will not get my money if you're changing the prices on customers like that.

They wouldn't do it if didn't enable them to extract more money from us.

Sounds like the rich when they threaten to leave if they don’t get their own way. If he gets voted in we will leave.

If they don’t like it they have every choice leave or not trade.

I think most of us understand economics well enough to see that there's no difference between a selective discount and a selective price hike.

It's not a threat, it's protection money

Bullshit.

If this isn't the most ridiculous thing ever. Surveillance pricing is effectively a price fixing event across all industry. Old America wanted healthy competition to best serve citizens. Me, I thought old America was bad for its citizens.

April 26th 1992...

I’ll take my chances.

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