Price increases happen overnight, or with everything tracked and digitized, this could lead supermarkets to charge more money right when demand spikes or maybe in the future even target particular shoppers willing to pay more.

They're going to take your frequent shopper card and figure out what your price point for different goods are. Then they're going to take their tracking of your cellphone and figure out when you're approaching your favorite goods, to raise the price. The technology for everything part of this already exists and is being used, it's just a question of who links everything up first.

Cool, we can get even more screwed by groceries.

The government has to get involved right? For something like food, you can't set up a system that walks right up against price gouging.

So basically, they want to raise the prices when it's convenient for them and the prices will also conveniently never go under what it is listed for today even if the demand is low

I saw Wendy's doing this last month. That's fine honestly they can do whatever I don't care, a fast food restaurant will always be a want rather than a need. Grocery is almost always a need, that's not ok

So, water a week before a hurricane is gonna cost a fortune. Cant wait for the price gouging lawsuits.

Dynamic shoplifting is coming to my trolley.

Fuck everything about this and everyone who does it, the world is awful enough to try and get by in we don't need predatory bullshit like this to make already disgustingly wealthy corporations wealthier: Greed is a crime against humanity.

next they'll add microtransactions and a season pass (costco already does i guess)

Prices change while you're shopping? I foresee a lot of restocking happening if that's the case.

If my milk increases 50¢ in the time it takes me to walk it up to the register, I'm just gonna leave that f*cker in the bagging area and walk out.

The problem with this is, they buy bananas at $x, then the price goes to $x+5, so they raise theor prices +$6 to compensate, however the stock they bought was still only bought at $x.

People end up paying a lot more when prices jump, when the store paid a lower price a day ago for that exact food. The price drops are also implemented with way less vigor so they drop slow but you can bet they spike instantly as the cost price goes up.

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I thought we already had this and called it “inflation” and “Macroeconomic headwinds” due to WSB and the war in Ukraine and the stimmy checks.

Another fucking day

Doubt it will happen around here until they replace all the price signs with digital ones. As it is right now, every time a price changes, an employee has to manually change that.

How long before some supermarket introduces, "surge pricing" for post-sunday-mass shoppers and gets sued based on religious discrimination?

Or some store just up and decides that they want to charge black people more? They'll say it's based on credit score or similar nonsense.

Back in the day we used to call this price gouging or price fixing when the cost of an item would increase based on sudden demand, or due to an emergency, etc. That used to be illegal, but I guess it’s okay in fucking Mad Max world now.