If the prices are negotiable, imma be in there haggling like I’m at a Turkish bazaar!
Imagine the chaos it would cause in these stores if they had to negotiate every item. If one it ten customers walked away leaving a cart full of groceries in the checkout. Fixed prices are the technology that allows these giant stores to exist. This will never work.
Don’t think they’re planning on allowing negotiations, dynamic pricing just means the price can change (automatically) at any moment, but you’ll still have to pay the sticker price. What I wonder is what happens if the price changes in between the moment you picked up the item and when you reach the register, because at least here in Europe advertised prices are final.
Like, customers do not want the price of their Kvikk Lunsj to go up while they’re shopping. So while the supermarket is open, prices shall only go down. Price increases happen overnight
Okay, so how do you deal with having all your customers shop exclusively during the last hour of business because that’s when prices are guaranteed to be at their lowest?
This cannot be stopped. It’s truly shocking major stores don’t do this already. I’m not applauding this, but the writing has been on the wall for years.
Clever for the example to be lowering prices when we know they are going to use this to squeeze us.
Is there a path forward that doesn’t involve a class war?
Best way to stop this is something like the FTC stepping in. Honestly, this is mostly likely illegal in the context of a grocery store.
If I walk up to a shelf, grab an item advertised at $1, then when I get to the checkout stand it’s actually $2, you’ve now mislead me on the price with no ability for me to have verified the price.
Now, without getting the law involved, one thing you can do is simply make it too expensive for these stores to switch prices. Take a picture of the price when you grab an item (annoying I know) and if you get to the exit and the price is higher, reject it and have the grocer take it back.
If you don’t want to do this with everything, primarily target refrigerated foods which they HAVE to throw out if you give it back to them (And they have to take it back).
In Australia, if you see an item had scanned for more than the price advertised on the shelf, you get it free. I’ve seen it in action a few times in my life. Last one was a savvy teenager who saw his bottle of coke was higher and he called it. He got it free.
What’s gonna happen is longer lines because of customers going “C’mon now, what are you guys trying to pull…the price on this item was 15 cents cheaper on the tag (because the tag price was changed in the 30 minutes between the customer removing the item from the shelf and them going to the checkout)”.
The employees I’m sure will have the authority to change the pride at the register a little bit, but with them scanning thousands of items every hour? “Manager, can I get an override” will be indelibly etched into all of our collective memories very soon.
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If the prices are negotiable, imma be in there haggling like I’m at a Turkish bazaar!
Imagine the chaos it would cause in these stores if they had to negotiate every item. If one it ten customers walked away leaving a cart full of groceries in the checkout. Fixed prices are the technology that allows these giant stores to exist. This will never work.
Don’t think they’re planning on allowing negotiations, dynamic pricing just means the price can change (automatically) at any moment, but you’ll still have to pay the sticker price. What I wonder is what happens if the price changes in between the moment you picked up the item and when you reach the register, because at least here in Europe advertised prices are final.
Okay, so how do you deal with having all your customers shop exclusively during the last hour of business because that’s when prices are guaranteed to be at their lowest?
They mean lowest highest price offering for that day.
This cannot be stopped. It’s truly shocking major stores don’t do this already. I’m not applauding this, but the writing has been on the wall for years.
Boycott
Clever for the example to be lowering prices when we know they are going to use this to squeeze us.
Is there a path forward that doesn’t involve a class war?
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Best way to stop this is something like the FTC stepping in. Honestly, this is mostly likely illegal in the context of a grocery store.
If I walk up to a shelf, grab an item advertised at $1, then when I get to the checkout stand it’s actually $2, you’ve now mislead me on the price with no ability for me to have verified the price.
Now, without getting the law involved, one thing you can do is simply make it too expensive for these stores to switch prices. Take a picture of the price when you grab an item (annoying I know) and if you get to the exit and the price is higher, reject it and have the grocer take it back.
If you don’t want to do this with everything, primarily target refrigerated foods which they HAVE to throw out if you give it back to them (And they have to take it back).
In Australia, if you see an item had scanned for more than the price advertised on the shelf, you get it free. I’ve seen it in action a few times in my life. Last one was a savvy teenager who saw his bottle of coke was higher and he called it. He got it free.
No such luck in the US. Company stores are barely illegal here.
More like his competition just learned he’s selling them for 20 cents more and can increase price
What’s gonna happen is longer lines because of customers going “C’mon now, what are you guys trying to pull…the price on this item was 15 cents cheaper on the tag (because the tag price was changed in the 30 minutes between the customer removing the item from the shelf and them going to the checkout)”.
The employees I’m sure will have the authority to change the pride at the register a little bit, but with them scanning thousands of items every hour? “Manager, can I get an override” will be indelibly etched into all of our collective memories very soon.