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"GIVE ME BACK MY SON AND A DISCOUNT ON PAPAYA FRUITS!" Sir, this is a 7-11 (both of those are on markup now because you asked).

You can absolutely do this. My father regularly gets discounts on big ticket items like TVs. Most of the time he just asks and they take 5-10% off.

Sigh, no you don't need a fucking AI app to do that.

And you ARE being ripped off if you are dealing with a corporation, whether it's the price, the quality, the quantity, the fine text, ect. You are getting fucked every single time.

So please don't be holding up the line and blocking aisles while your chatbot nanny tells tells you that something in FUCK-YOU-LOL-MART™ is overpriced. Learn how underscan and shotplift like a normal person.

I already have a browser plugin that tells me the price history of everything at Coles. There's one for Woolies too.

Not quite the same thing, but I used an LLM to cobble together a HTML file that allows me to search for products on Coles, Woolies, Aldi and Amazon at the same time in the same window (via frames and a Firefox extension to get around some security settings).

Works a treat when planning our big shops for the week, and has already saved us hundreds of dollars since Jan.

Some American grocery stores already tested the waters by posting armed guards in its stores. This article is a few years old, but the precedent stands.
https://retailwire.com/discussion/hy-vee-creates-its-own-armed-security-squad-to-deter-crime/

Hy-Vee last week announced the introduction of an in-house armed security team to manage theft and in-store disturbances.

The Midwest grocery chain said in a statement that it has long worked with third-party contractors or off-duty law enforcement that work in a security capacity. The goal of bringing it in-house is “to create a consistent look for the security team and consistent approach to customer service and security across all [its] stores.”

slavery is legal in jails (in the US)

They do that anyway, but usually prices going down.

e.g. yellow stickers going on things that will expire soon.

You've not lived if you haven't watched two pensioners fight to the death over a 20p pack of Greek yoghurt.

Reminder that by law, if the price is listed wrong:

Sometimes the price of an item in store or online at the checkout may not match the displayed or advertised price in store or online. If this happens, even by mistake, the business must either:

• sell the product for the lowest price - either the checkout price, or displayed or advertised price, or
• stop selling the item until the incorrect price is corrected.