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Dynamic pricing could be coming to your local supermarket (www.abc.net.au)
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[–] cmhe@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (12 children)

In Germany the price is actually set at the cashier, not the tag. I found that out the hard way once, where the price tag was wrong and I had to pay more.

So dynamic pricing wouldn't even require deploying these smart tags, the cashier or the 'smart' self-checkout could just do it on their own. They could just use their cameras, analyze your face to figure out if you are in a hurry or not, or in any other way willing to accept a higher price and then offer you the ware to something you are probably going to accept.

The future is realtime individualized price gouging.

[–] themurphy@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

It's illegal in Germany, but not in the way you think.

It's illegal to write to wrong price on the sign on purpose, but if it happens by accident the shop is not obligated to sell at the price on the sign.

That's it. You is blowing this way out of proportion.

[–] cmhe@lemmy.world 1 point 1 day ago (1 child)

Kurzum: Erst wenn Sie mit der Ware an die Kasse gehen und eine eindeutige Kaufabsicht mit Preisvorstellung abgeben, entscheidet sich, ob Sie den Artikel auch wirklich zu diesem Preis erhalten. Sie haben kein Recht, den angegebenen Preis einzufordern.

In short: Only when you take the goods to the checkout and express a clear intention to purchase at the asking price will it be decided whether you will actually receive the item at that price. You have no right to demand the stated price.

https://www.focus.de/immobilien/wohnen/falsche-preisauszeichnung-muessen-sie-trotzdem-den-richtigen-preis-zahlen_a0f9868d-30c0-45f0-b25e-27893a11b914.html

To me, that the price label is accidental wrong doesn't really matter.

[–] themurphy@lemmy.ml 1 point 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Yes, like I said.

They are not obligated to give it to you at the "wrong" price, but at the same time it's illegal to put up the sign if it's misleading with the wrong price on purpose.

They are then obligated to fix the sign, otherwise it's misleading.

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