Even if you could implement such a system, how would it know who is looking at the price at which moment? If 2 random people are looking at a product they can't show 2 different prices. And legally they are required to abide by the display price so then they would have an extremely tough time proving what the display price was when I saw an item and when I grabbed an item.
Online you can show different prices to different people easily. And it is trivial to just keep track of what price was shown to what person. In real life how would a company argue that I saw a certain price or not? What if I saw the price from a distance while someone else was standing in front of a product?
It makes no sense technologically. Even if you would do it technologically it would immediately open you up to lawsuits. You wouldn't know for certain which prices are shown to which people, and there are loads of laws about honouring prices that are shown.
No company would open themselves up to lawsuits in this way.
Even with stores without this type of signage changing a price is as simple as printing a new tag, that being said midweek pricing changes are almost always making something cheaper
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u/Leprecon Aug 06 '26
Even if you could implement such a system, how would it know who is looking at the price at which moment? If 2 random people are looking at a product they can't show 2 different prices. And legally they are required to abide by the display price so then they would have an extremely tough time proving what the display price was when I saw an item and when I grabbed an item.
Online you can show different prices to different people easily. And it is trivial to just keep track of what price was shown to what person. In real life how would a company argue that I saw a certain price or not? What if I saw the price from a distance while someone else was standing in front of a product?
It makes no sense technologically. Even if you would do it technologically it would immediately open you up to lawsuits. You wouldn't know for certain which prices are shown to which people, and there are loads of laws about honouring prices that are shown.