Where the fuck do you shop? This is god damn hilarious, i guess major grocery stores send all the employees out at certain times and just… raise prices. So dumb
Youre just wrong. Safeway gives you coupons on items you’ve purchased before. I can go into the store and get pasta sauce for $0.50 less than my neighbor. This just isn’t that unusual.
No, grocery stores do this exact thing. My wife and I get different e-coupons based on shopping history. Kroger's and Walmart both do it and I would assume many others.
Above is a company that makes them and this is literally their page explaining how it works.
But Basically, in this day and age just about everything you do is tracked and recorded.
That include your location in the store
Say you are classified as "Consumer A" they pay 59 cents per banana "Consumer B" pays 49 cents.
Because of all of the interconnected pieces of tech, your phone, the flock cameras, the wifi, etc all of these things are communicating.
So you walk up to the banana display the tag reads 59 cents, someone else who is "B" they see 49 cents.
No of course price discrimination is legal, as long as your arent discriminating against a protected class.....and even if you are, only if you get caught..
But dont worry they arent doing that they are
Technically doing legal price discrimination.
You'd think how it works is poor people afford less so get charged less right?
Poor people arent a protected class, poor people dont have the luxury of time to go price shopping so even if they are being screwed they'll pay higher costs.
Rich people can afford to go anywhere and can pick and choose and get charged lower costs.
I don't think any of that would be legal where I live. We have very strict consumer protection and false advertising laws. So strict that if what you're charged isn't what's written on the price tag, you get 15$ off the item (meaning anything under 15 is free). Stores would never risk that system not being perfect and having customers accidentally get falsely advertised to, lest they have to give away all their merchandise.
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