124
this post was submitted on 21 Jun 2024
124 points (100.0% liked)
chapotraphouse
13535 readers
57 users here now
Banned? DM Wmill to appeal.
No anti-nautilism posts. See: Eco-fascism Primer
Gossip posts go in c/gossip. Don't post low-hanging fruit here after it gets removed from c/gossip
founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
so what the fuck is gonna happen when I pick up an item at one price and 15 mins later I go to check out and it's $2 more
That shit's gonna suck so bad for everyone involved lmao
Makes me want to do some first amendment auditor bullshit but for groceries, go around with a gopro and when they change the fucking prices on me I roll the tape showing I was advertised a different price
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.
more bother for who though?
if it only bothers the minimum wage cashier and some budget-minded consumers, but it squeezes a few million more in profit out each year it'll happen. There might be enough backlash to it to prevent it from taking off, but if they slow roll it cleverly I can see it happening
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?
lawsuits idk, maybe there's more law on this than I think
But inconveniencing customers? idk I think there are ways it could be pulled off without jamming up the checkout lines.
"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