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Dynamic pricing could be coming to your local supermarket (www.abc.net.au)
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[–] cmhe@lemmy.world 5 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (1 children)

Issue is that haggling is actually legal in many countries.

So at the cashier they will make you an offer, which, if you pay, accept.

Now with technical support making individual offers becomes pretty easy and effordless on their end, but if you are in a hurry you don't have that technical support to make a counter offer that effordless... So the shopper is at an disadvantage. Either way, your reaction, wherever you buy or not will train the AI of the store to extract the maximum amount of money of the broad customer base. If some people are priced out of living, they probably don't care.

[–] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 5 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

Haggling might be fine but they have to honor price tags.

If I'm in a grocery store and I see $1.00 they can't change it and try to charge me $1.10, and when I object and say it was $1.00 it shows $1.10 now.

[–] HerbalGamer@sh.itjust.works 4 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

This is why american taxes had me confused when over there.. it says $1.00 on the pricetag, so how can they tell me a different price at the register??

[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 8 points 8 hours ago

The price of the item hasn't changed, it's just that they didn't include tax in the price. Yes, it's stupid.

[–] cmhe@lemmy.world 2 points 12 hours ago

Well... In Germany apparently they can.

The price tag is not binding, it is a mere price suggestion. The final price is the one when you actually buy it at the checkout.