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Short selling spice derivatives based on future forcast retirement community being built in order to afford the $5/bottle surge after the petrochemical train devalued its load into the aqueducts. (hexbear.net)

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[-] Chronicon@hexbear.net 31 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

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

[-] Tunnelvision@hexbear.net 32 points 4 months ago

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.

[-] Barabas@hexbear.net 15 points 4 months ago

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.

[-] Chronicon@hexbear.net 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

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

[-] Barabas@hexbear.net 4 points 4 months ago

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?

[-] Chronicon@hexbear.net 3 points 4 months ago

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.

[-] Adkml@hexbear.net 11 points 4 months ago

"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"