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Two of them were like "actually no I want to fuck over everyone who uses stores like a poor person"
Can someone explain me how it helps people? The article references another article on the same site to cite a study that found that Instacart was using ai to charge people "who can afford it" more (up to 20%) for the same items. The article talks about this as a huge win during affordability crisis, SNAP program cuts, and how it will help people who "just trying to put food on their table".
Well, I think most of people who try to save money on groceries are not using Instacart. The go to the store, where price gauging is much more complicated. So this bill would affect purchases made by people who aren't usually counting every penny at the register.
And what will the companies do? Will they just keep prices low for everyone now? Or they will just increase it for everyone to keep the overall margin level? Something tells me it's going to be latter...
I don't know, probably Im missing something, but I just don't see why this is celebrated this much. At the very least it just looks... weak and PR heavy. At worst, it will increase costs for everyone.
Maybe, highlighting the problem of corporate surveillance is a good thing that comes from it.
Yes they like to use the example of "people who can afford less pay less" but never shit like "this single mother cannot afford to go to another store and needs diapers right now".
There is no way a corporation would do this if it didn't make them money (or promise to).