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Massachusetts has had fair pricing laws for grocery stores for years that I suspect already de-facto ban "dynamic pricing". It requires grocery stores to ring

Massachusetts has had fair pricing laws for grocery stores for years that I suspect already de-facto ban "dynamic pricing". It requires grocery stores to ring up the item at the lowest marked or advertised price, or the item is free. It also requires all items to be marked (or have scanners available to show the price), so they can't get around it by just not showing prices.

PearlRiver 5mo ago
In my country prices are often wrong because supermarkets are run by a small team of literal teenagers (one of the downsides of having decent minimum wages is that nobody wants to hire anyone if they somehow can avoid it).
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- paulddraper 5mo ago
  The true minimum wage is zero.
  - amalcon 5mo ago
    It's definitely possible for a job to have negative expected value for the employee, even if looking only at cash flow. MLMs are the most obvious way, but e.g. hairdressers often need to rent their station in the store -- while this can be a reasonable deal, it can also run negative.
itopaloglu83 5mo ago
An average store carries around 20,000 SKUs, so I understand that they’re looking for easier solutions to price updates, especially after having relatively high inflation after a couple of decades. However, they’re already making it impossible for shoppers to track prices, and we all know soon (left to their own devices) they’re going to switch to individual pricing. I’m surprised that the pricing issue is not being discussed in the context of online shopping already, with home deliveries on the rise.
- FireBeyond 5mo ago
  I have zero sympathy for them. My local Safeway, despite being able to upgrade to e-Ink price tags with all this is still absolutely intended to make it impossible for consumers. Example, for the same brand of paper towel, in different sizes, the price comparison for one size is $/sheet, another, $/sqft, and another, $/roll. They have the solutions, they just know that the more solutions are in play, the less (in theory) they'll be able to get away with shit like this.

PearlRiver 5mo ago

In my country prices are often wrong because supermarkets are run by a small team of literal teenagers (one of the downsides of having decent minimum wages is that nobody wants to hire anyone if they somehow can avoid it).

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paulddraper 5mo ago
The true minimum wage is zero.
- amalcon 5mo ago
  It's definitely possible for a job to have negative expected value for the employee, even if looking only at cash flow. MLMs are the most obvious way, but e.g. hairdressers often need to rent their station in the store -- while this can be a reasonable deal, it can also run negative.

itopaloglu83 5mo ago

An average store carries around 20,000 SKUs, so I understand that they’re looking for easier solutions to price updates, especially after having relatively high inflation after a couple of decades. However, they’re already making it impossible for shoppers to track prices, and we all know soon (left to their own devices) they’re going to switch to individual pricing. I’m surprised that the pricing issue is not being discussed in the context of online shopping already, with home deliveries on the rise.

FireBeyond 5mo ago
I have zero sympathy for them. My local Safeway, despite being able to upgrade to e-Ink price tags with all this is still absolutely intended to make it impossible for consumers. Example, for the same brand of paper towel, in different sizes, the price comparison for one size is $/sheet, another, $/sqft, and another, $/roll. They have the solutions, they just know that the more solutions are in play, the less (in theory) they'll be able to get away with shit like this.