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Seems like the barcodes encoded the deal, and they figured out how to insert arbitrary discounts and resell high value products. You can find legitimate arbitra
by robbedpeter 5y ago
Seems like the barcodes encoded the deal, and they figured out how to insert arbitrary discounts and resell high value products. You can find legitimate arbitrage opportunities with extreme couponning, but just like mechanical turk or ad view / click rewards "work" it very rarely reaches minimum wage when you account for time and profit. If people are making bank doing seemingly trivial stuff like this, it's going to be temporary and/or illegal.
- SOLAR_FIELDS 5y agoI think it was in the early/mid aughts when grocery stores wised up. Couponing was a big deal during that time frame and I worked in a grocery store in the States at that time that would periodically do "double" and "triple" coupon weekends. We would have people walking out with $200-300 worth of merchandise on the triple weekends and they would have to scan a candy bar at the check out so that we didn't owe them money. It was always a cart full of pretty bizarre stuff that didn't look like a typical grocery trip in strangely large amounts (stuff like 4 bottles of Windex). They eventually stopped doing the double and triple coupon weekends once they figured out how much money they were losing. That was also before you could easily just walk into a store then turn around and sell what you bought online two hours later too.