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Recreate the Amazon experience in a store by asking for their name so you can show them different prices and offers, then write down everything the shopper look

Recreate the Amazon experience in a store by asking for their name so you can show them different prices and offers, then write down everything the shopper looks at, adds to their basket, and after they've paid sell their information to advertisers so they will see adverts for the lawnmower they've just bought for the next few days.

ukuina 3y ago
Are you saying Amazon modifies prices for items based on which user is logged in?
- kitd 3y ago
  Some sellers do this, yes.
  - Thorrez 3y ago
    On Amazon? How? Does Amazon provide an API allowing that?
    - kitd 3y ago
      Automated pricing, based on user interest. https://sell.amazon.com/tools/automate-pricing https://sell.amazon.com/tools/automate-pricing
      - lxgr 3y ago
        This still controls the price for all users though, as far as I’m aware.
- naikrovek 3y ago
  yes this is a known thing.
  - hammyhavoc 3y ago
    Any recent sources on it?
    - yazzku 3y ago
      Browse without login from another device+ip. Back in the day it was subtle and you'd have to browse some category of shit for a while before the prices were inflated for your account.
      - hammyhavoc 3y ago
        Looks the same for me in the UK. Even tried it from a few VPNs, and tried it from my Linux disk.
        yazzku 3y ago
        By "back in the day" I mean 10+ years ago, and you'd have to browse for a few days. I am not sure why I am being downvoted for something that I and others have observed; must be the Amazon fanboys having a hard time acknowledging they work for a shitty company. Other companies have done this for years too, like airlines. It's also not like you need to search very hard to see all the lawsuits Amazon is involved in, but here is one link describing price changes (which occur due to many things, of course, not just user profiling): https://talkradionews.com/does-amazon-increase-price-after-viewing-what-we-know/#r https://talkradionews.com/does-amazon-increase-price-after-v... Don't forget that Amazon is also the same company that removed 1984 from people's devices. Of all books...
    - petrw 3y ago
      [flagged]
      - hammyhavoc 3y ago
        Rather than being smug, pompous, and having nothing useful to say, you could provide a recent source. What I did find on Google is several years old, and I can't replicate the pricing changes even with a VPN, different OS, different hardware, and different account. Even asked friends and family to tell me what prices they see.
- jimmySixDOF 3y ago
  Not the question being asked exactly, but there are quite a few people testing the market for live dynamic in store shelf pricing where they can drop or raise on demand. Its a little odd to think that a jug of milk might be cheaper at 1pm than at 6pm.
WaitWaitWha 3y ago
This not my experience. I walk into the grocery store to get some fuji apples. I keep asking for fuji apple" but I am affixed with horse blinders and walked to the cell phone isle by a helpful clerk, and a bunch of iPhones are presented. I ask the clerk for "fruit fuji apple", and I am escorted to a different isle with all kinds of accessories for iPhone. I walk over to the fruits & vegetables department, stand in the isle with all kinds of apples, and ask for the "fuji apples" again. The clerk promptly walks me back to the iPhone accessory isles, and leaves me there. I go out of the store, ask a passer-by where the fuji apples are in the store, she tells me exactly. I walk into the store, go to the exact location, and see the fuji apples. I put it in my basket, walk to the check out. At the checkout the clerk asks me if I want to include a 1 year protection plan, or purchase a charger for my apples. I decline. I purchase it, go home and wait for the apples to show up at my door. Two days later the fruit show up. They are williams pears.
- mejthemage 3y ago
  Try asking for "Fuji apple reddit" next time and you'll get pointed in the right direction
- account42 3y ago
  At least the checkout clerk didn't shove a giant bilboard into your face asking if you want a subscription for their video rental and premium delivery businesses.
dredmorbius 3y ago
With in-store (B&M) tracking based on WiFi/Bluetooth signatures and facial recognition ... this is actually in many cases a near future if not already present reality. The principle difference being that shoppers aren't actually asked for their names. (Names are determinable through interpolation of those signatures, or through payment information by credit or debit card.)

ukuina 3y ago

Are you saying Amazon modifies prices for items based on which user is logged in?

kitd 3y ago
Some sellers do this, yes.
- Thorrez 3y ago
  On Amazon? How? Does Amazon provide an API allowing that?
  - kitd 3y ago
    Automated pricing, based on user interest. https://sell.amazon.com/tools/automate-pricing https://sell.amazon.com/tools/automate-pricing
    - lxgr 3y ago
      This still controls the price for all users though, as far as I’m aware.
naikrovek 3y ago
yes this is a known thing.
- hammyhavoc 3y ago
  Any recent sources on it?
  - yazzku 3y ago
    Browse without login from another device+ip. Back in the day it was subtle and you'd have to browse some category of shit for a while before the prices were inflated for your account.
    - hammyhavoc 3y ago
      Looks the same for me in the UK. Even tried it from a few VPNs, and tried it from my Linux disk.
      - yazzku 3y ago
        By "back in the day" I mean 10+ years ago, and you'd have to browse for a few days. I am not sure why I am being downvoted for something that I and others have observed; must be the Amazon fanboys having a hard time acknowledging they work for a shitty company. Other companies have done this for years too, like airlines. It's also not like you need to search very hard to see all the lawsuits Amazon is involved in, but here is one link describing price changes (which occur due to many things, of course, not just user profiling): https://talkradionews.com/does-amazon-increase-price-after-viewing-what-we-know/#r https://talkradionews.com/does-amazon-increase-price-after-v... Don't forget that Amazon is also the same company that removed 1984 from people's devices. Of all books...
  - petrw 3y ago
    [flagged]
    - hammyhavoc 3y ago
      Rather than being smug, pompous, and having nothing useful to say, you could provide a recent source. What I did find on Google is several years old, and I can't replicate the pricing changes even with a VPN, different OS, different hardware, and different account. Even asked friends and family to tell me what prices they see.
jimmySixDOF 3y ago
Not the question being asked exactly, but there are quite a few people testing the market for live dynamic in store shelf pricing where they can drop or raise on demand. Its a little odd to think that a jug of milk might be cheaper at 1pm than at 6pm.

WaitWaitWha 3y ago

This not my experience. I walk into the grocery store to get some fuji apples. I keep asking for fuji apple" but I am affixed with horse blinders and walked to the cell phone isle by a helpful clerk, and a bunch of iPhones are presented. I ask the clerk for "fruit fuji apple", and I am escorted to a different isle with all kinds of accessories for iPhone. I walk over to the fruits & vegetables department, stand in the isle with all kinds of apples, and ask for the "fuji apples" again. The clerk promptly walks me back to the iPhone accessory isles, and leaves me there. I go out of the store, ask a passer-by where the fuji apples are in the store, she tells me exactly. I walk into the store, go to the exact location, and see the fuji apples. I put it in my basket, walk to the check out. At the checkout the clerk asks me if I want to include a 1 year protection plan, or purchase a charger for my apples. I decline. I purchase it, go home and wait for the apples to show up at my door. Two days later the fruit show up. They are williams pears.

mejthemage 3y ago
Try asking for "Fuji apple reddit" next time and you'll get pointed in the right direction
account42 3y ago
At least the checkout clerk didn't shove a giant bilboard into your face asking if you want a subscription for their video rental and premium delivery businesses.

dredmorbius 3y ago

With in-store (B&M) tracking based on WiFi/Bluetooth signatures and facial recognition ... this is actually in many cases a near future if not already present reality. The principle difference being that shoppers aren't actually asked for their names. (Names are determinable through interpolation of those signatures, or through payment information by credit or debit card.)