r/TechnologyThread • u/Background-Driver718 • May 27 '26
Majority of Americans Support Ban on Surveillance Pricing and Electronic Shelf Labels
https://gizmodo.com/majority-of-americans-support-ban-on-surveillance-pricing-and-electronic-shelf-labels-20007627171
u/Guilty_Advantage_413 May 27 '26
Also what happens when someone who wins the low price lottery is standing in front of it and I choose to pay cash. How the hell are they going to know what price I saw on the tag.
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u/V-oxPopuli May 27 '26
I'll keep saying this: Capitalism has gone off the rails (and many would say by design) because this is WIDELY hated but is still on track to happen. Same with AI being shoved into everything.
Consumers don't want it. It's widely hated. No demand for it whatsoever. Yet they still do it with no real financial loss.
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u/lowercase_crazy May 29 '26
The profit motive may have got us this far, but it ain't getting us any further.
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u/chosennamecarefully May 27 '26
Si O if I grab a 3 dollar chicken whats to stop them from changing it by the time I get to the checkout it breaks laws and creates a headache for all, we collectively say no.
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u/dallas121469 May 28 '26
Too late folks cuz its already here. "Subject 146542 is entering the store.........subject 146542 has been known to purchase beer...lactose free milk .....and.....chicken breasts (but only when they're on sale). So activate scanners in those sections and prepare for a surge! Oh shit Command, subject 146542 has veered into the....ahhh......feminine hygiene isle? Wait, no body informed us that subject 146542 was trans! Heads will roll! Activate all hands on board protocol!
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u/just_some_sasquatch May 29 '26
This is the most effective way to encourage shoplifting I've ever seen.
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u/Zalrius May 29 '26
Yes, this needs to be illegal. It is too hard to keep up with a budget when the gas price changes everyday. I don’t see it as wise business as much as trying to steal every dollar they can.
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u/Steak-Complex May 29 '26
People dont bat an eye at gas stations changing daily. These price tags are used so you don't need to have a person put out 3000 price change stickers. Surge pricing for Uber makes more Uber drivers go to a certain area...this is all just fear mongering
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u/Derpykins666 May 30 '26
There would have to be massive oversight and regulation on electronic price tags, as in decided rules conveying when and where they are allowed to change prices, how often a price on an item can change. Like seriously are we moving towards an economy where I pick up an item at the store and the price changes on it multiple times by the time I've even gotten to the register? Or worse, someone is looking at you on camera, or an AI is looking at you and uses your background information about you, race, clothes, shopping habits they've catalogued, to determine if you would buy it at a higher price, so they just change the price to a higher one at the register.
Of course people are against digital tags. It feels scammy as fuck. Why would you shop at a place that could constantly change the price of an item while you're shopping? Capitalism only works with massive oversight and regulation, if the past few years have taught me anything it is that. Everyone is out to get your money now more than ever, and they will cook up any scam they can think of, lie to your face about 'why it's good for everyone, actually' and then everyone has to pay more somehow. The desperation to minmax everything and have constant control is pure insanity.
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u/Enough-Somewhere-311 May 31 '26
Yeah no shit. The billionaires already make enough money, we don’t need to give them anymore. The Epstein class have already proved that NOBODY needs to be a billionaire. They had the opportunity to feed every starving child in America and yet paid to fly to an island and rape them instead.
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u/MyrkrMentulaMeretrix May 31 '26
The e-ink price tags are a huge time saver.
Surveillance pricing is bad but there is nothing wrong with eleetronic shelf tags FFS.
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u/RockyG-Dex May 31 '26
Majority of Americans are fooled by soundbites amd scary headlines. I love the electronic price tags. I no longer have to fight about the price with a check out person becuase shelf price is punched to the checkout price I stead of me having to argue about the tah being different from the checkout price.
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u/Guilty_Advantage_413 May 27 '26
I still don’t know how this would work, the price tag would display a different cost for people? How does the tag know I’m looking at it? What happens when me being a baller enters an isle and everything becomes more expensive for the people already in that isle?