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Kroger unveils AI-powered automatic price gouger (pivot-to-ai.com)
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[-] bitofhope@awful.systems 35 points 3 months ago

EDGE (enhanced display for environment)

did not even try

[-] dgerard@awful.systems 37 points 3 months ago

whoops! that was our error! It's actually "Enhanced Display for Grocery Environment" which is at least an acronym. Fixed.

[-] self@awful.systems 23 points 3 months ago

as a consumer, I love to be delighted by a grocery environment that only makes prices lower (than a baseline price Kroger themselves set based on factors like: lying about the impact of shoplifting; intentionally creating food deserts; colluding with other supermarket chains to keep prices high; vibes)

[-] self@awful.systems 23 points 3 months ago

maybe if I’m an extra good consumer they’ll replace all the freezer doors with pointless screens you can’t see through that are all constantly broken but still manage to waste a fuckton of energy

my consumer experience will really be improved when every one of those screens is recording my movements for the noble goal of knowing when to replace the animated ad for monster energy with an extremely inaccurate listing of the items contained in the freezer

motherfuckers

[-] froztbyte@awful.systems 12 points 3 months ago

oh god these ghouls are going to roll out personalized ads on door-thin displays the moment they can afford to, aren't they?

[-] bitofhope@awful.systems 14 points 3 months ago

Still 1/5 acronym.

  • Word unrelated to displays or groceries
  • Secondary meaning as a sexual term
  • Already used by Enhanced Data rates for GSM Evolution which is itself a mediocre acronym at best
  • Two of the four non-particle words, "enhanced" and "environment" are meaningless filler only there to make the acronym work.
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