Cashier: I'm going to have to cancel orders for so many damn items

Stocker: I'm going to have to reshelf so many damn items

Also stocker: I'm going to have to throw away so many damn items

Store management: I'm going to turn over so many damn employees

Rich Consumers: I'm going to have so much higher risk of food borne illnesses

Poor Consumers: I'm going to only be able to eat price stable staples (or just starve)

Store owner: I'm going to make slightly higher profits, so everyone's a winner!

someone should kill these people

If it's hot outside, we can raise the price of water and ice cream

Nice grocery store you got there, be a real shame if it caught fire because it's, uh, "hot outside"

Remember when they called inflation "greedflation" brother that's just normal capitalism. This is the cost of business living in late capitalism.

These things will have to be wireless to be of any value. It'd be a shame if whatever bands they're using were filled with garbage and noise so they couldn't update.

You know what the hilariously fragile Rube Goldberg machinations of global capitalism needs to be more efficient?

Spot pricing on groceries!

In the future, there will be lines of shopping assistants standing outside of stores. In exchange for a payment, they buy the items you need on your behalf so that the facial recognition doesn’t identify you as someone with frequent stomach aches and raise the price of Pepto-Bismol to $500/bottle.

Can't wait to grab something only to have the price change by the time I get to the register

Gosh sure would be a shame if someone hacked those and changed the price of an organic gallon of milk to $1.50.

In practice the logistical load of price surging based on real-time data would just be too expensive to bother with, this is probably mostly about saving on paper costs and having to train people even less since an OTA update to pricing can be completely automated and roll over on a weekly basis

Wendy's just hinted at the possibility of surge pricing and their sales tanked and idk how long it took them to recover, or if they have, at a certain point people just don't have more money to spend, you can't squeeze blood from a fucking stone

Mr. Evrart is helping me find my excuses for the lack of terror

How about to start you use it to actually add the sales tax to the price?! Always seems crazy to me you Americans have to figure that shit out for yourself.

What would you have to pay if they changed the price tag in the time span between you pick something fun the shelf and you get to the register?

The ex-almost-a-lawyer in me thinks that posting a price tag next to an item in a store counts as giving a binding offer that stores will have to make good on. The cynical marxist in me thinks that big businesses will be allowed to fuck over normal people once more.

Imagine of normal people did this thing: "Here's this month's rent mr. Landlord! What do you say? It is only half of what we agreed to when I signed the lease? Oh, haven't you heard, I have implemented algorithmically live-updated surge payments!"

: “Sorry, [X] costs more now? Why is it expensive? Because I CAN charge that much!

: “Damn you, socialists! Your bad vibes made poor porky want more money!”

So they'll lower the price of water and ice cream if it's cold outside, right?

Installing a massive water carboy and bulk ice cream freezer in my apartment so I can solve this individualisticaply. Get on my level.

Watching the price raise by 15¢ Everytime it's over over 90°F out. curiously it never comes down. Huh

How the fuck am I NOT to commit an adventurismo with shit like this man. Just look at any fucking CEO that first comes across me and go :grabber-left::what-the-hell::grabber-right:

People with disabilities or chronic disease will be so fucked

You know what? I don't need your fancy water anyways. That'll show em! *Slowly dies of thirst *