Technology

I've already sent feedback to Walmart about my refusal to buy anything with a digital price tag. The thing is, I believe them when they say that prices are only updated between 1:00 and 2:00 a.m. The problem is that that policy could change literally any time.

Walmart has every inch of their store covered in cameras. They have facial recognition systems so they know who I am the moment I walk in the store. They know I buy graham crackers. They know I've put up with price increases in the past. What is preventing them from adding $0.10 to those graham crackers' price tag the moment I walk down the crackers aisle? Literally nothing. They could, and that's reason enough for me to boycott

If they want to do dynamic pricing, maybe we'll just have to start dynamic shopping.

these gonna get hacked...

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

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??

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.

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!

https://katu.com/news/local/portland-city-council-votes-to-ban-ai-assisted-rent-price-fixing-to-promote-fair-housing-oregon-artificial-intelligence-landlord-housing-crisis

Already here in Canada.

Man would really suck if internet cuts out to get updates when its at the lowest prices...

Free epaper displays!

Start pushing your state gov to ban this.

Dynamic pricing Price gouging. FTFY.

I'm going to start haggling with the cashiers.

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

In other news, shoplifting is inexplicably on the rise in shops featuring dynamic pricing.....

Please make it stop