remember if you see someone shoplifting food no the fuck you didnt
It is morally correct to shoplift from stores that do this.
Dynamic pricingPrice gouging. FTFY.I’m going to start dynamic payments. “Oh, between 6-9pm I pay 10% less.”
Free epaper displays!
Then I won’t be going to that supermarket.
Portland banned it for housing. Time to ban it for everything else!
In other news, shoplifting is inexplicably on the rise in shops featuring dynamic pricing…
We can’t compete against these internet stores. People just don’t respect brick and mortar and buying locally anymore /s
Some American grocery stores already tested the waters by posting armed guards in its stores. This article is a few years old, but the precedent stands.
https://retailwire.com/discussion/hy-vee-creates-its-own-armed-security-squad-to-deter-crime/Hy-Vee last week announced the introduction of an in-house armed security team to manage theft and in-store disturbances.
The Midwest grocery chain said in a statement that it has long worked with third-party contractors or off-duty law enforcement that work in a security capacity. The goal of bringing it in-house is “to create a consistent look for the security team and consistent approach to customer service and security across all [its] stores.”
You wouldn’t shoot a man over a bagel, would you?
Corporate America:
slavery is legal in jails (in the US)
Start pushing your state gov to ban this.
Great, I have a very bad feeling about this, given the possible crisis of 2026.
It’s going to be hilarious when these get hacked
Reminder that by law, if the price is listed wrong:
Sometimes the price of an item in store or online at the checkout may not match the displayed or advertised price in store or online. If this happens, even by mistake, the business must either:
- sell the product for the lowest price - either the checkout price, or displayed or advertised price, or
- stop selling the item until the incorrect price is corrected.
What law? In what country?
Australia, the country the article is talking about. That was a quote from the ACCC website.
The closest thing I can think of would be Quebec, they have some fairly strong consumer protections, but i don’t know how far they would extend in cases like this
stop selling the item until the incorrect price is corrected
Not a lawyer but couldn’t they just refuse to sell it to you? We all know it would be bullshit but couldn’t a company say “Oh that minimum wage clerk made a mistake, but don’t blame them, just an honest mistake.”
Or is the law, if it’s on the shelf, it must be honored?
They would have to refuse to sell to anyone. It would likely not be lawful to leave it on the shelf and sell it at the higher price to someone else who might not have noticed the discrepancy, until they fix up the shelf pricing.
and then there will be a really popular AI driven phone app that you will use to scan items and find out if you’re being ripped off or not
I already have a browser plugin that tells me the price history of everything at Coles. There’s one for Woolies too.
Do you have an App that offers better places to shop?
Good choice of product to care about.
Sigh, no you don’t need a fucking AI app to do that.
And you ARE being ripped off if you are dealing with a corporation, whether it’s the price, the quality, the quantity, the fine text, ect. You are getting fucked every single time.
So please don’t be holding up the line and blocking aisles while your chatbot nanny tells tells you that everything in FUCK-YOU-LOL-MART™ is overpriced. Learn how underscan and shotplift like a normal person.
Not quite the same thing, but I used an LLM to cobble together a HTML file that allows me to search for products on Coles, Woolies, Aldi and Amazon at the same time in the same window (via frames and a Firefox extension to get around some security settings).
Works a treat when planning our big shops for the week, and has already saved us hundreds of dollars since Jan.
Dynamic mass theft.
Innovative exploitation.
Next-Generation sculduggery.
I’m going to start haggling with the cashiers.
Back when I worked on a till, there was no option to haggle. But, I didn’t give a fuck if you robbed off with half the store. So maybe do that instead 👌
“GIVE ME BACK MY SON AND A DISCOUNT ON PAPAYA FRUITS!” Sir, this is a 7-11 (both of those are on markup now because you asked).
You can absolutely do this. My father regularly gets discounts on big ticket items like TVs. Most of the time he just asks and they take 5-10% off.
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.
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.
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.
This is why american taxes had me confused when over there… it says $1.00 on the pricetag, so how can they tell me a different price at the register??
The price of the item hasn’t changed, it’s just that they didn’t include tax in the price. Yes, it’s stupid.
Well… In Germany apparently they can.
The price tag is not binding, it is a mere price suggestion. The final price is the one when you actually buy it at the checkout.
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.
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
earliestmost 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.
