That’s where we are heading in the US, privatized fire, they will be bringing back the firesale. Hopefully the private equity guys that get involved with it meet Crassus’ fate, the Roman prick that popularized the practice around the 1st century. (He financed an expidition to persia, lost, got captured, they are said to have poured molten gold down his throat, because they knew how much he liked gold.)
As you stand there and wait for that digital price on that item to lower, because you figured out if you wait, the price will drop slowly, you can watch an ad while you wait and knock off additional pricing!
Then our lives are people standing around in grocery stores waiting for prices to drop, and those that can’t afford the time, will pay the fast premium price!
Then when all the prices and this practice normalizes… you compare to what it used to be like.
And the prices we pay now requires wait 2+ min per item… and more money and profits go to the corporations as a whole.
There was a consumer reports investigation that uncovered discriminatory pricing through instacart if memory serves. It’s coming, and retailers dream of digital price tags connected to their cctv networks that id you and deliver prices based on whatever criteria they choose.
It’s done by Temu and AliExpress, too. Not sure how much power the Canadian government has on direct-from-China online storefronts, but it’s already happening to Canadians, if not by Canadian businesses.
Show me that it is already in place first, before banning it.
Do you wait until there’s a fire to buy an extinguisher?
Especially since if they learn that your house is on fire they will raise the price on you.
That’s where we are heading in the US, privatized fire, they will be bringing back the firesale. Hopefully the private equity guys that get involved with it meet Crassus’ fate, the Roman prick that popularized the practice around the 1st century. (He financed an expidition to persia, lost, got captured, they are said to have poured molten gold down his throat, because they knew how much he liked gold.)
Old timey values.
Why? It’s already in place in the US. Preemptively banning the practice here makes 100% sense.
What? Why?
Yea seriously. What actual benefit would there be to consumers by allowing individualized pricing? Certainly not lower prices.
As you stand there and wait for that digital price on that item to lower, because you figured out if you wait, the price will drop slowly, you can watch an ad while you wait and knock off additional pricing!
Then our lives are people standing around in grocery stores waiting for prices to drop, and those that can’t afford the time, will pay the fast premium price!
Then when all the prices and this practice normalizes… you compare to what it used to be like.
And the prices we pay now requires wait 2+ min per item… and more money and profits go to the corporations as a whole.
Manitoba already preemptively banned this practice. Why not go nation-wide with it?
There was a consumer reports investigation that uncovered discriminatory pricing through instacart if memory serves. It’s coming, and retailers dream of digital price tags connected to their cctv networks that id you and deliver prices based on whatever criteria they choose.
https://www.consumerreports.org/money/questionable-business-practices/instacart-ai-pricing-experiment-inflating-grocery-bills-a1142182490/
It’s done by Temu and AliExpress, too. Not sure how much power the Canadian government has on direct-from-China online storefronts, but it’s already happening to Canadians, if not by Canadian businesses.