My closest Walmart has e-ink price tags on the shelves inside the store, which I am absolutely certain are network enabled, and can be changed by remote. I'm sure they were already headed towards dynamic pricing, if they weren't doing it already.
Now, purely from a labor stand point, I can see the utility of network addressable electronic price tags, because you don't have to send employees out to change tags when the price changes, but, the potential for customer abuse is gigantic.
The history of technology from at least the nineteenth century. Just once, I'd like to see society choose to protect social fabric rather than produce a marginal corporate gain.
Pretty certain they already do this when you buy complex things like insurance
My closest Walmart has e-ink price tags on the shelves inside the store, which I am absolutely certain are network enabled, and can be changed by remote. I'm sure they were already headed towards dynamic pricing, if they weren't doing it already.
Now, purely from a labor stand point, I can see the utility of network addressable electronic price tags, because you don't have to send employees out to change tags when the price changes, but, the potential for customer abuse is gigantic.
The history of technology from at least the nineteenth century. Just once, I'd like to see society choose to protect social fabric rather than produce a marginal corporate gain.
I guarantee you the state of Washington does not understand how prices work and will fuck this up
Yeah, it only applies to those they want ...
Raise prices for non-citizens