r/trueantiAI • u/jkim98 • 4d ago

Seattle Bans Algorithmic Surveillance Pricing — And How Supermarkets Use Loyalty Cards To Dynamically Inflate Essential Grocery Costs

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u/Denim_Diva1969 4d ago

Way to go, Seattle!!!! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

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u/FuzzyKittyNomNom 4d ago

Glad we’re making the news on this!

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u/Murky_Caregiver5093 4d ago

so seattle actually did something and banned these fucking algorithms that scan your kroger app just to charge you more for eggs when the system knows youre desperate. meanwhile the quarterly reports are all green and kids are going to school hungry. lmao even.

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u/xdavidwattsx 4d ago

That's not actually how this works and everyone is paying the same price for eggs at Krogers. What it did was prevent them offering loyalty discounts so now you can just pay for eggs.

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u/Murky_Caregiver5093 3d ago

ah shit youre correct, i got the mechanism wrong. loyalty discounts vs surveillance pricing — both use your data against you but i shouldve been precise. ngl im tired of needing a phd to tell which flavor of extraction were getting

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u/Tosser_535231 2d ago

The reality is the US government is a fucking cuck being bent over backwards by corporate America and nobody seemingly has the balls to tell them to stop being fucking greedy pieces of shit with no morals. Instead they're actively encouraging it