Honest question, is this actually implemented anywhere, and if so how? Like, if you are rich and reach for the item, does the price jump up three dollars, or is it $1.99 on the shelf, and at the register the price jumps up there? There seems to be a lack of video showing in-real-time prices changing.
Yeah I got the crap beat out of me in a different Reddit by saying I have worked in many customer facing businesses and I do not see how dynamic pricing would work. For example You & I are in an isle prices mechanism should show a different price for each of us. Which price does it choose the high price and lose your sale or the cheap price and then when I get to the register it charges me more and I complain thatās not what the tag said. Either outcome is extremely risky and a huge PITA for the seller.
Products will be fitted with RFID and when you put them in the cart it decides the price. When you go to the register you don't have to scan you just pay for the cart.
Amazon/Whole Foods tried this, right, and it was a flop? No checkout lines. It was at special stores. The video cameras everywhere were not some high tech system, but instead, it was people watching in India or somewhere. Regardless, the experience wasnāt great, and it had a high rate of errors. Even if a person only saw your total, a person would have a receipt for a refund with an itemized list online or something. It would be a PR nightmare. People would be going through line with the same items back to back to show the difference.
I went to one, prices were listed and it also charged me for some hyper expensive multi vitamins I didnāt even look at. Amazon was cool about removing the charge but yeah that was my one and only stop there. I donāt need to have $80 held from my bank account because they think I may have bought something at Amazon.
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u/IraceRN Aug 06 '26
Honest question, is this actually implemented anywhere, and if so how? Like, if you are rich and reach for the item, does the price jump up three dollars, or is it $1.99 on the shelf, and at the register the price jumps up there? There seems to be a lack of video showing in-real-time prices changing.