Fun fact: Last time a grocer attempted dynamic instant-adjusting pricing, they got sued into oblivion for making watermelon, fried chicken, and grape soda way more expensive in black neighborhoods than white ones. Their defense of "literally no humans are involved in this process, it's purely demand-based pricing adjustments done by an unthinking spreadsheet" didn't fly.
Don't worry. It's just so they can change the prices with less manpower. You should still focus on this though, and not the fact that half their work force speak 7 different languages.
My local wal-mart has those e-ink tags already. I don't shop there, so what they do doesn't affect me, however, what Wal-Mart does tends to be a trend setter, so these adaptive price tags likely won't stay at Wal-Mart, everyone will have them eventually.
So they could increase prices because people are buying it or just because of the time of day? Fuck that, if the price increases from the time I pick it off the shelf to check out I'm going to flip carts and knock over candy displays. They can spend their tag savings on getting that shit cleaned up.
There were patents floating around with other chains claiming ownership, that probably hindered adoption.
Interesting, as Wal-Mart hasn't followed this particular type of BS much in the past, they are one of the few places without loyalty cards (which prior data selling, were used by chains to look up customer history and decide whether a customer was profitable enough to bother with when they came to the customer service desk). They also in my past experience tending to have a very reasonable profit margin across goods. Not reasonable as in cheap, reasonable as in there are reasons when it is higher, like higher theft rate, spoilage, etc. They didn't seem to do loss-leaders and other such BS.
I've noticed Wal-Mart has been making unusually bad management decisions in the past year or so. Several stores seem to have changed their self checkouts and stopped manning them last winter with more cameras, but illegals seem to just forego pretense, walk up to the bagging station, bag their crap and walk out without ever presenting a credit card, making the cameras useless. They seem to have realized this and started manning the self checkouts again.
You may scoff, but in the past Wal-Mart rarely made mistakes like that, in the past they did lots of serious studies before rolling out sweeping changes like that.
Fun fact: Last time a grocer attempted dynamic instant-adjusting pricing, they got sued into oblivion for making watermelon, fried chicken, and grape soda way more expensive in black neighborhoods than white ones. Their defense of "literally no humans are involved in this process, it's purely demand-based pricing adjustments done by an unthinking spreadsheet" didn't fly.
Let's see if Walmart has better lawyers.
Good. Don't want to incentivize them to travel.
Rich neighborhoods don't have bus stops for a reason.
When I tell people that, they don't believe it.
They also prevent the liquor and beer from being sold in their neighborhood.
I read years ago that every two hours, somebody somewhere files a lawsuit against Walmart.
Yes. They do.
All they have to do is raise the prices for white people and they'll be immune to any legal repercussions.
Don't worry. It's just so they can change the prices with less manpower. You should still focus on this though, and not the fact that half their work force speak 7 different languages.
My local wal-mart has those e-ink tags already. I don't shop there, so what they do doesn't affect me, however, what Wal-Mart does tends to be a trend setter, so these adaptive price tags likely won't stay at Wal-Mart, everyone will have them eventually.
I first read about them being used at other chains, so Wal-Mart is the follower here.
Make no mistake: this is not about money, this is about installing another aspect of The Beast System, creeping into place.
Assassination needs to become a normal, everyday, unremarkable part of life.
So they could increase prices because people are buying it or just because of the time of day? Fuck that, if the price increases from the time I pick it off the shelf to check out I'm going to flip carts and knock over candy displays. They can spend their tag savings on getting that shit cleaned up.
There were patents floating around with other chains claiming ownership, that probably hindered adoption.
Interesting, as Wal-Mart hasn't followed this particular type of BS much in the past, they are one of the few places without loyalty cards (which prior data selling, were used by chains to look up customer history and decide whether a customer was profitable enough to bother with when they came to the customer service desk). They also in my past experience tending to have a very reasonable profit margin across goods. Not reasonable as in cheap, reasonable as in there are reasons when it is higher, like higher theft rate, spoilage, etc. They didn't seem to do loss-leaders and other such BS.
I've noticed Wal-Mart has been making unusually bad management decisions in the past year or so. Several stores seem to have changed their self checkouts and stopped manning them last winter with more cameras, but illegals seem to just forego pretense, walk up to the bagging station, bag their crap and walk out without ever presenting a credit card, making the cameras useless. They seem to have realized this and started manning the self checkouts again.
You may scoff, but in the past Wal-Mart rarely made mistakes like that, in the past they did lots of serious studies before rolling out sweeping changes like that.