Great, I have a very bad feeling about this, given the possible crisis of 2026.
this post was submitted on 03 Mar 2026
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Man would really suck if internet cuts out to get updates when its at the lowest prices...
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!
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 mass theft.
Innovative exploitation.
Next-Generation sculduggery.
Dynamic pricing Price gouging. FTFY.
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.
Do you have an App that offers better places to shop?
Good choice of product to care about.
Not quite the same thing, but I used an LLM to cobble together a HTML file that allows me to search for products on Coles, Woolies, Aldi and Amazon at the same time in the same window (via frames and a Firefox extension to get around some security settings).
Works a treat when planning our big shops for the week, and has already saved us hundreds of dollars since Jan.
Please make it stop
In other news, shoplifting is inexplicably on the rise in shops featuring dynamic pricing.....
slavery is legal in jails (in the US)
Some American grocery stores already tested the waters by posting armed guards in its stores. This article is a few years old, but the precedent stands.
https://retailwire.com/discussion/hy-vee-creates-its-own-armed-security-squad-to-deter-crime/
Hy-Vee last week announced the introduction of an in-house armed security team to manage theft and in-store disturbances.
The Midwest grocery chain said in a statement that it has long worked with third-party contractors or off-duty law enforcement that work in a security capacity. The goal of bringing it in-house is “to create a consistent look for the security team and consistent approach to customer service and security across all [its] stores.”
You wouldn't shoot a man over a bagel, would you?
Corporate America:
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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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Time to vote with our wallets. I absolutely will refuse to shop at any store in my area that starts implementing this.
Sure... If you even notice it. And if enough people will care and if there are still stores around that don't do that, clearly superior profit maximising scheme.
I'd rather want this stuff to become illegal. So calling your representatives, make news and go to the streets about this would I think help more that yet another boycott.
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