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A Boring Dystopia
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Technically in one sense, maybe. Technically in a practical sense, no. Because the price on the shelf is the agreed price to pay, and if it changes after you put it into your cart, that's gonna break laws.
People are making hay over something that will not happen.
but let's say it does. People will absolutely lose their SHIT. And while companies are stupid, they are not THAT stupid. And even let's say they ARE that stupid: This is the type of the legislatures would love to pass laws about becauase it's easy to do and extremely popular. Like cops running stings. It's easy and shows they're doing something.
So I am absolutely zero worried about this and all this hype is stupid.
Will they changes prices nightly? Sure. Will they change prices multiple times during the day or for individual shoppers? Nope.
And if they were going to pull this shit, they'd already be pulling it online where they can already do that. And yet, not a single fuckin peep about that from any of these people hyping up this thing.
You're at Walmart doing grocery shopping, and you fill your cart with all kinds of foods. Are you going to realize the tomatoes are ringing up at $2.51/lbs when the label was $2.40 in?
I don't think it would be illegal, the price tag is not a contract and it's often mislabeled today. The question is, can you get people to accept that the price will go up or down before you checkout, and will they just pay when it goes up or create a new stock return inventory?
If the chicken you've been walking around the store with went up and you decided you didn't want it anymore, that's straight to the trash. What products will they target with this?
I think it's more likely to go down during the day to compete with other stores than to go up on you, but who knows what these greedy fucks are going to do.
i remember numbers, so yes?
last time i paid gas was a week ago, 5.359 at sams club if you doubt (i just pulled that out of my ass but it's correct, i checked my phone).
That's cool. I don't think you're an average consumer.
nah. i worked with numbers for 25 years. i'm well below average. can't even do arithmetic anymore unless it's all variables.
You have too much faith in your idea of what can and can't happen.