this post was submitted on 18 Mar 2024
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A Boring Dystopia

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[–] epyon22@programming.dev 14 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Just another iteration of what coupons and "bonus" cards are used for.

[–] rezifon@lemmy.world 6 points 9 months ago

Yeah, there's been dynamic pricing at grocery stores for as long as I've been alive.

[–] TheFriar@lemm.ee 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

How do you mean? You saying the “sale” price is the regular price, and the regular undiscounted price is the inflated price, I assume?

[–] epyon22@programming.dev 3 points 9 months ago

Yeah pretty much you can really see it on many highly processed, high margin, non essential food. Think cookies, chips, frozen quick food ect. There is a huge effort to manipulate the prices and drive you to not only buy that product but also draw you into a store.