Let’s see a ban on realtime digital price tags while we’re discussing affordability. Or a daily limit on when they can be updated.
Two shoppers should not have to wonder if they’re paying different prices for the same goods because an algorithm said one would be willing or desperate enough to pay more.
Ban it now before the practice becomes commonplace.
If I pick something up from a shelf for one price and it scans as a different price because they changed the tag midway through my shopping trip, isn’t that like… kinda illegal? Like… we’re just allowing this?
The personalized pricing method is more insidious. Security cameras track you around the store and change prices just for you and again do the person behind you. They know it’s you by facial recognition or by the identifiers in your grocery discount app.
If the computer tracking you around the store can see where you are it can find you in the checkout line and attach the price amounts you saw as you put items in your cart.
It’s creepy and sounds ridiculous but it’s happening in the US.
No, it doesn’t sound ridiculous at all. They’ve been tracking us with our phones for years already. That’s why you get ads for the pizza place across the street from the bank you use.
Let’s see a ban on realtime digital price tags while we’re discussing affordability. Or a daily limit on when they can be updated.
Two shoppers should not have to wonder if they’re paying different prices for the same goods because an algorithm said one would be willing or desperate enough to pay more.
Ban it now before the practice becomes commonplace.
If I pick something up from a shelf for one price and it scans as a different price because they changed the tag midway through my shopping trip, isn’t that like… kinda illegal? Like… we’re just allowing this?
The personalized pricing method is more insidious. Security cameras track you around the store and change prices just for you and again do the person behind you. They know it’s you by facial recognition or by the identifiers in your grocery discount app.
And then it does what, at the checkout? Like… what if I go to a real person?
If the computer tracking you around the store can see where you are it can find you in the checkout line and attach the price amounts you saw as you put items in your cart.
It’s creepy and sounds ridiculous but it’s happening in the US.
No, it doesn’t sound ridiculous at all. They’ve been tracking us with our phones for years already. That’s why you get ads for the pizza place across the street from the bank you use.
It’s already happening without the help of digital tags.
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