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This is something the boomers could actually do to help. They can’t remember what they had for breakfast that morning but by god they will remember a ¢.02 difference between the price at the register and the price on the label.
The main argument for these is to avoid this exact problem with discrepancies between labels and the cash register. Introducing surge pricing would be a lot more bother than it is worth.
They are already overcharging compared to shelf prices, that is the very thing they’re introducing this to prevent in order to avoid bad publicity and legal costs in states where it is mandated that they should show the same price.
Also, the Walmart employee being yelled at isn’t an issue for them morally, but making people mad and also holding up lines is really not something to be desired. How much do you think they’d earn from this kind of surge pricing before they get flooded in lawsuits?
"Huh that's not what the price tag said" dumps it on the ground
"Huh that's not what thenprice tag said" *dumps it on the ground *
Yea I know this is "punishing minimum wage workers" in the short term but at a certain point there's gotta be pushback on this shit.
Yea it'll suck in the short term, hopefully all the grocery store workers start refusing to work anywhere this is a policy. Or better yet people would refuse to continue to shop anywhere this was a thing but hoping for Americans to consume less out of principle is the most useless plan maybe of all time.
It's kind of like when I have to sit on hold for 30 minutes every month to figure out how my insurance company managed to fuck up me giving them $600 and getting nothing in return this month. I understand the person I'm talking to is just a worker but they chose to work for a company who's company policy is to fuck over their customers, I have less sympathy than most especially if the employees attitude is anything short of "fuck these bullshit artist parasites"
Hopefully they at least follow gas station rules and can only change the price once a day