Steal everything you can, only from corporate entities. Don’t get captured.
this post was submitted on 14 Feb 2026
127 points (100.0% liked)
United States | News & Politics
3878 readers
407 users here now
Welcome to !usa@midwest.social, where you can share and converse about the different things happening all over/about the United States.
If you’re interested in participating, please subscribe.
Rules
Be respectful and civil. No racism/bigotry/hateful speech.
No memes/pics of text
Post news related to the United States.
founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS
I remember the days wyen every product was required ta have a price tag on it to avoid similar situations long before AI. You'd see a label in the aisle, then get charged a different price at the register.
Wanna bet they try that move again next? Using facial recognition and buying habits, upcharge the customer when they get to the register based on high confidence that the customer isn't paying close attention.
as far as i know, it isn't illegal to tape over the sensor. wear a mask for safety
I was thinking only approach a tag when you see someone of potentially lower socio-economic status nearby.
Are you kidding, I assume they raise the prices for the poors haha
They do. The idea is to target people who don't have other options. Say you don't have a car and this is the only grocery store you can easily get to.
I wish they would allow the digital price tags and just make it so prices can only be changed once per day. Why is that not the obvious solution?
It's still easy and tempting to change the price frequently with a digital tag, even without surveillance on individuals. Without a third-party audit that keeps track of the price, you have no way of knowing whether a price has been changed unfairly. Paper sucks but it introduces friction.
What makes that better than regular fixed prices?
You can allow the labor saving aspect of digital price tags without allowing the price-gouging bullshit of variable pricing.
Changing sku tags, doing markdowns and markups etc, are some of the more pain in the ass tasks in a big box store, or any store for that matter. Automating that wouldnt be such a bad thing, so long as it doesnt also allow variable pricing bs
I see. I never realized how tedious moving the price tags around would be, but that makes sense.
Just for perspective, a store like walmart can have several hundred items that need to be changed within a day. That means someone that would usually have something better to do has to spend an entire shift going around farting with little paper tags. It's a massive waste of time and a task that nobody wants to do.