But sure, once you enable the capability, it won't be long before we are living in the inevitable grim meathook future.
Making price changes easier for workers is cool, but can we not have surge pricing for some things? This is getting ridiculous.
It just feels like a lawsuit waiting to happen for minor at best gains.
Outside of that, I am surprised we have not seen this more places yet. It feels like this has been showing up at random stores for years and make a lot of sense.
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The biggest problem wasn't shelf tags, it was sales items on end caps and special displays. Sometimes those signs would get missed and the wrong price would linger until someone complained. Since those displays often were built and stocked by third party vendors, the pricing manager wasn't always aware of their locations or required changes in signage.
I'm a bit astonished by my current state Michigan having such poor enforcement on pricing. I've lived in states in the deep south and on the west coast and they all had pricing laws that were enforced. I've seen entire convenience stores here with no price tags at all and even national retail chains like Kroger are sloppy with their pricing and signage. To me that's a sign that the state government isn't enforcing the rules or the rules are weak. At the very least there should be abundant price check scanners scattered throughout the stores that customers can use.
Having prices adjust regularly is a good thing. The status quo is that stores err on the side of setting prices too high.
This is the more important part to me. I've long been proponent of far stricter and more comprehensive labelling rules, especially for foods. This won't make those weak laws any better, and the corporations that sell us food will continue to fight tooth and nail to deny us more information about what they'd have us put in our body. But having a common interface to get more info to consumers is better than the constraints of physical labelling and might at least expand that conversation and get consumers wanting more.
Another avenue to track/identify your customers, if you scan and load a QR code they can loop you into the existing web tracking/advertising systems
Neah, I am only daydreaming.
I’m not an expert but it’s this price gouging? I guess it depends on your definition of reasonable. I don’t find it reasonable to raise the price on a lifesaving necessity right when it’s needed. Let’s all file FTC complaints and see what their investigation finds.
DG already has already faced lawsuits related to their advertised pricing vs price at the register. Surge pricing in a food desert sounds like a Late Stage Capitalism wet dream.
I'm not going to argue for the virtue of updating prices for products by hand out of FUD over surge pricing or the like. If people are really upset about it we can legislate that prices can't be changed more frequently than weekly.
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