If they want to do dynamic pricing, maybe we'll just have to start dynamic shopping.
this post was submitted on 03 Mar 2026
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these gonna get hacked...
I will buy that for a dollar. (no really lettuce for a $1 is worth the hack)
My local store can not even get a reliable source of staple foods (the distributor often shorts them milk, meat or whatever), there is no way this:
A) Works
B) Is adopted by any non large store
C) Is accepted as anything but a hated cash grab
What's the common way for updating these? I have some similar devices that use Wi-Fi but local stores seem to use some sort of nearby transmitter pointex towards the shelves, maybe infrared/optical
If this happens, I will absolutely try to figure out how to game it
Bring items to self checkout. Scans as fast as possible. Walks out with a 20% dynamic discount.
Or they could charge a customer more if they know the customer always buys the same product.
How so they propose changing an e-ink shelf label per customer??
Probably more timed towards certain times and demographics, but yeah it just takes a couple seconds to update and there are plenty of customers running "loyalty points apps"
Great, I have a very bad feeling about this, given the possible crisis of 2026.
remember if you see someone shoplifting food no the fuck you didnt
It is morally correct to shoplift from stores that do this.
Already here in Canada.
Man would really suck if internet cuts out to get updates when its at the lowest prices...
I'm going to start dynamic payments. "Oh, between 6-9pm I pay 10% less."
Portland banned it for housing. Time to ban it for everything else!
Free epaper displays!
Start pushing your state gov to ban this.
I'm going to start haggling with the cashiers.
"GIVE ME BACK MY SON AND A DISCOUNT ON PAPAYA FRUITS!" Sir, this is a 7-11 (both of those are on markup now because you asked).
You can absolutely do this. My father regularly gets discounts on big ticket items like TVs. Most of the time he just asks and they take 5-10% off.
Back when I worked on a till, there was no option to haggle. But, I didn't give a fuck if you robbed off with half the store. So maybe do that instead 👌
Dynamic pricing Price gouging. FTFY.
Dynamic mass theft.
Innovative exploitation.
Next-Generation sculduggery.
Then I won't be going to that supermarket.
and then there will be a really popular AI driven phone app that you will use to scan items and find out if you're being ripped off or not
Sigh, no you don't need a fucking AI app to do that.
And you ARE being ripped off if you are dealing with a corporation, whether it's the price, the quality, the quantity, the fine text, ect. You are getting fucked every single time.
So please don't be holding up the line and blocking aisles while your chatbot nanny tells tells you that everything in FUCK-YOU-LOL-MART™ is overpriced. Learn how underscan and shotplift like a normal person.
I already have a browser plugin that tells me the price history of everything at Coles. There's one for Woolies too.
What's the name of that plugin?
Do you have an App that offers better places to shop?
Good choice of product to care about.
I actually saw Tim Tams on the shelf at a Morrison's in Northern Scotland, and it was cheaper than Coles in Australia. It's absurdly priced here.
I found an industrial sized box of them, and snapped them up. I've been doling them out to some poor ozzies stuck in my neck of the woods for months now. I think the end price was about two dollars a box.
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Please make it stop
In other news, shoplifting is inexplicably on the rise in shops featuring dynamic pricing.....
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Should be against the law to change the price after the shop opens at something like a grocery store. Nobody should be able to shop anywhere where the price you pick it up at can change by the time you get to the checkout.
Edit: Maybe there could be some exception for mid day price changes if you emptied the entire store of customers first, but enforcing something like that seems difficult.
They do that anyway, but usually prices going down.
e.g. yellow stickers going on things that will expire soon.
You've not lived if you haven't watched two pensioners fight to the death over a 20p pack of Greek yoghurt.
That's a little different.
Items that can expire get marked down at some point during the day, but they aren't changing the normal price of the item. If there's 20 packs of chicken breasts on the shelf, 5 or 6 might get the sticker.
There's no guarantee that the one you have would have even gotten a sticker, and if you're savvy enough, you might have intentionally chosen the pack with the earliest most recent packed on date, or gone late enough to be after the mark down time near the end of the day (at least where I am)
They aren't just going up and marking down the main price on everything, and its also always down, never up.
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