Also stocker: I'm going to have to throw away so many damn items

I noticed that the "50% OFF ENJOY TONIGHT" sections of my local stores now overflow with unsold bread every Thursday.

No I won't call the fire department, but I will allow you to rent the use of my phone for thirty thousand dollars

"What, this? This is my emotional support RF jammer. It's very important to me, so I will be wearing it while perusing your store."

Taking a Flipper zero to the grocers and setting all the tags to fifty cents

pricing can be completely automated

when that's working there's no reason they couldn't do surge pricing. an infrastructure existing with only the prospect of modifying their pricing algorithms & updating it more frequently to enchance profitability.

you can't squeeze blood from a fucking stone

you can bleed an awful lot from monopolized essential goods

Other stores have already been doing surge pricing apparently. They just raise their prices and offer sales during slower periods.

My local supermarket has started to lower prices. Not on everything. And there's still shrinkflation. But on many basics. I doubt they're doing it to be kind. It's likely because they reached the limit of customers' overdrafts and their overall sales were dipping or because they're trying to undercut the competition to drive them out of business.

The blood from a stone thing is really reaching a tipping point.

Me and my girlfriend haven't gone out for a meal in over a year. I don't know anybody who regularly goes to restaurants anymore and if they do it's to see a live band and drink booze they brought from home in the parking lot.

At a certain point the people will theoretically just not have any money to spend and then no amount of business school wisdom is going to get somebody with $5 to pay $20 for a burger.

or $.015

I always assumed that was a deliberate business decision to drive anti-tax sentiment among consumers by charging more than the posted 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.

"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

I think it will be daily or bi daily adjustments like gasoline.

The new norm will be pricing is final once it’s rung up, until then, it’s variable. The only other way I see it going is that these electronic labels fall into disrepair or they generally don’t function as intended, and then the store shifts back to paper labels to save money, but keep the surge pricing model.

Stores are going to have to replace these digital labels as they age I can’t imagine them lasting any longer than like four years.

Ok Nancy Pelosi

That's exactly what I was thinking. They used to have electric mobility carts, no more. My mother with multiple invisible disabilities stopped using them a couple years before they took them out because of the stigma against anyone using one. She already gets only the shittiest produce when she orders online pick ups, but now she's going to get gouged too because she literally cannot stand and walk around that long without passing out in the middle of the aisle. This is so fucked up.

EDIT: I just looked up "what happened to electric mobility carts" and this was the top result https://www.reddit.com/r/walmart/comments/18o4fvd/im_so_tired_of_electric_carts_and_the_entitled/

I'm having a fucking stroke what the fuck is wrong with people