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Is the price frozen once you put it in your cart? Or can you end up with a completely different priced cart by the time you make it to the register?

out-of-ideas 2y ago
yeah how does it know; and how would it prevent a user from having 2 people with 2 bakets, monitoring prices and pulling the cheaper out while at a store. in CA at least, the store is required to sell to the consumer at the advertised price (if for instance if its advertised as $1 a lb, and the register has it as $1.20 a lb, the customer will get it for $1; if the price flops dymaically every 10 secs, how will this be upheld?
- joezydeco 2y ago
  Stores aren't going to change the price six times a minute. Like you said, existing laws would stop it from happening and customers would revolt if it did. The headline is just hyperbole form NPR even if it's technically true.
  - out-of-ideas 2y ago
    yep headline is a bit over the top. sadly, ive lost my faith in customers. i do remember seeing gas stations prices being manually updated in the daytime during rush hour. i can imagine even a change in price once during open hours could cause confusion.. and it would be hard to catch. how many folks do you know actually pay attention to price next to item vs checkout price? - most folks i know just pay-whatever and ignore 2nd checking at register
y42 2y ago
probably not, if it's the price tag on the shelf itself and there's no electronic checkout, you have to hurry to get to the checkout.
alkonaut 2y ago
If you scan the item as you add them to the cart I don’t think it could be adjusted at checkout. For an old fashioned scan-at-checkout it obviously can’t know what the price was when you added it to your cart, so presumably you risk finding it has a different price at the checkout than you saw at the shelf. Only way to avoid that (and probably the most common practice) is to change prices e.g only nightly.

out-of-ideas 2y ago

yeah how does it know; and how would it prevent a user from having 2 people with 2 bakets, monitoring prices and pulling the cheaper out while at a store. in CA at least, the store is required to sell to the consumer at the advertised price (if for instance if its advertised as $1 a lb, and the register has it as $1.20 a lb, the customer will get it for $1; if the price flops dymaically every 10 secs, how will this be upheld?

joezydeco 2y ago
Stores aren't going to change the price six times a minute. Like you said, existing laws would stop it from happening and customers would revolt if it did. The headline is just hyperbole form NPR even if it's technically true.
- out-of-ideas 2y ago
  yep headline is a bit over the top. sadly, ive lost my faith in customers. i do remember seeing gas stations prices being manually updated in the daytime during rush hour. i can imagine even a change in price once during open hours could cause confusion.. and it would be hard to catch. how many folks do you know actually pay attention to price next to item vs checkout price? - most folks i know just pay-whatever and ignore 2nd checking at register

y42 2y ago

probably not, if it's the price tag on the shelf itself and there's no electronic checkout, you have to hurry to get to the checkout.

alkonaut 2y ago

If you scan the item as you add them to the cart I don’t think it could be adjusted at checkout. For an old fashioned scan-at-checkout it obviously can’t know what the price was when you added it to your cart, so presumably you risk finding it has a different price at the checkout than you saw at the shelf. Only way to avoid that (and probably the most common practice) is to change prices e.g only nightly.