29 pointsby jonbaer4 hours ago3 comments
  • dlcarrier2 minutes ago
    If they can figure out how to make price tags that show different prices to different people, they should be targeting to display different images to each eye and selling it as glasses-free 3D.
  • weezing3 hours ago
    Meanwhile in the EU every price tag for a discounted item needs to also show the lowest price that was available in the last 30 days.

    https://europa.eu/youreurope/citizens/consumers/unfair-treat...

    • RugnirViking6 minutes ago
      I've not seen that here in Denmark? Usually just discounted price+price by weight/item/volume, and 'regular' price and regular price by weight/item/volume
    • victorbjorklund34 minutes ago
      I theory I think dynamic pricing in grocery stores is allowed in EU but not sure if actually used.
  • kotaKat3 hours ago
    >> “Digital price tags are replacing paper ones… cameras are watching aisles… apps are moving from search-based to predictive and having true curated experiences that end up harming the average shopper,” Moore said during testimony last month. “If Myles [a member of Moore’s staff] and I were to go in a supermarket at the same time… we could pick up the exact same item and be charged a different price for it, because they know that I’ll pay it. This type of manipulation of data is not fair.”

    But that's not how that works at all? If Myles and Moore were staring at the same electronic price tag, they'd be displaying the same price. I wish these legislators would stop parroting lies given to them by the UFCW who is mad that electronic price tags will "replace clerk work" not understanding that the employees should and can be upskilled to replace tags, batteries, and manage the tags including linking them to home locations and signaling them for product updates?

    You want real dynamic pricing, a good example? Go call up an auto parts store, asking for a part for your vehicle. There's a list price you're going to be sold over the counter, meanwhile Jim down the street at Jim's Auto will be quoted a cheaper price than you, meanwhile the guy at the parts counter is staring at a screen showing them the company's own cost is even lower than both of those and they get to play "how much do we screw the guy on the other side".

    • unethical_ban2 hours ago
      >But that's not how that works at all

      Good! Let's keep it that way.

      • Schiendelman2 hours ago
        Maybe. When you sign up for Amazon Prime, you see lower prices on some products when you're logged into that account. Same with Costco, if you have a membership, you see lower prices on some products in their app.

        I worry that rather than "fixing a problem" that may not exist, this creates a new problem.

    • estimator729210 minutes ago
      You haven't actually rebutted the statement at all. Do you have any proof or rationale for this statement, or are you simply assuming that retailers don't do this?

      And your example does not illustrate dynamic pricing at all. There's nothing dynamic about your example, this is all fixed prices quoted by merchants with different costs and profit margins. This is how trade has worked for approximately all of human history.

      Dynamic pricing means that the price changes dynamically, in real time. Prices change based on time of day, weather, how many people are in line, what the merchant's algorithm thinks you personally are willing to pay. This is all new, enabled exclusively by modern computing and surveillance technology.

      I don't think you actually understand what you're arguing against here.