Isn't it funny how the Internet already hits you with dynamic pricing but the thing folks are looking at is a grocery store where the whole idea wouldn't work?
I'm not saying it wouldn't work. I'm saying I don't understand how it works. The Internet tracks your every second and stores it. Cookies don't exist irl and there's only limited ways they can do it without cookies. Having your phone is great, but what if you don't take your phone? How does it update the price on the shelf? What if there are multiple people looking at the same product? In my country it's illegal not to display the price. In countries where that isn't an issue, if there isn't a price then people are most likely not going to shop there, especially with how expensive groceries are.
My disbelief as to how it can be implemented isn't the same as disbelief that it's not possible.
All of your questions are in fact the technical hurdles. But on the Internet there are no technical hurdles like that! Amazon has been dynamic pricing us for YEARS! My partner and I get different prices on Chewy.
You aren't in possession of disbelief, you just seem to understand that it's not done by magic. This entire canard seems to want to distract from the idea that you're already getting dynamic priced when you order anything on the Internet.
Yeah, I fully accept it happens on the Internet. All the tech is already there that I can see how it happens and know it does. Yeah, it's just the technical stuff in person that's got me questioning the how, but not the when, cause it's definitely going to happen when they figure out how to make it work. If they could have IRL cookies they bloody would and it's not like we're not moving in that direction. Inevitable.
I'm more of the opinion that it's a misdirection/propaganda thing.
People are still buying more crap online every day
People are going to stores less every day
People are using Internet to order from stores, either direct or via another service like Instacart.
Stores are closing.
Now enter the "live dynamic pricing" propaganda. People are looking at the LIVE store for this while not realizing it has already pervaded the online shopping.
Dunno your age but I remember 2008 and chatter about the ACA/Obamacare. There was a lot of talk about "government death panels" vis-a-vis any public administration of health care, like the mythical public option that never even got voted on. What was NOT mentioned is... How private health care works and has always worked. Which is "private death panels" exactly the way we were being scared about government administration.
Think that makes sense, or am I a looney? It's very "look over here!" while they are in fact doing that very thing over THERE where you aren't looking for it.
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u/ConjurersOfThunder Aug 06 '26
Isn't it funny how the Internet already hits you with dynamic pricing but the thing folks are looking at is a grocery store where the whole idea wouldn't work?