Loblaws has had this for a while, we no longer shop thete, but it was frustrating because an item would fluctuate in price depending in what day you went. No way to budget for random pricing
To be fair to Loblaws, I've never seen them change prices with these mid-day, so they're not engaged in "surge pricing" that I've heard of. (I haven't been to Loblaws since the start of the boycott, but I don't expect it's changed.)
But I do wonder about the legality of that; right now, if the price at the till doesn't match the item price, you get the first one free and the rest at the marked price (up to $10 items; above that it's $10 off the marked price for the first item). But my impression is that policy is from Loblaws signing some sort of grocery code ages ago when scanners came in, essentially to assure consumers that they wouldn't be scammed by scanners ringing up items at higher prices than advertised. I don't think that is legally mandated.
So, then, what happens if the price changes between when you put it in your cart and when you arrive at the till? Anyone engaging in surge pricing where the timing isn't clearly marked in advance is going to get into a lot of trouble with consumer backlash, at the very least, but I hope it's illegal, too.
Beehaw never defederated with lemmy.ml. Most notably, Beehaw defederated from Lemmy.world which is one of the main reasons I'm happy to stay here. If Beehaw moves away from Lemmy, I'll definitely need to find another instance that's defederated with Lemmy.world.
I would think the price changes happen overnight. With their system each RFID type price label can be flipped when the push the pricing to the register system.
I'm sure the old way was a deterrwnt in changeing prices because they had to call staff in to swap labels. Now it is computerized, so on a whim they can adjust.
We had an oat drink we liked one day 4.99 go back to grab another the next day 7.99. Few days later 3.50...we said screw this company and just got it at Walmart where price was consitent every time.
Yeah, fair. It's frustrating when prices fluctuate; I'm lucky that we don't have many "must have" items on our shipping lists, and I'm very price sensitive, so I just don't buy things that are expensive. And I only used to go to Superstore at most weekly, so I'd never have noticed daily fluctuations.
PARIS — Deadly violence continued for a third night in the French Pacific territory of New Caledonia over a proposed change to France's Constitution that would give voting rights to an increasing number of non-Indigenous residents of the archipelago.
French TV reports showed stores and cars in New Caledonia that were looted and burned, and citizens, some of them armed with rifles and machetes, clashing with riot police.
At least four people have been killed in the violence, including a police officer who was shot in the forehead at point blank range, according to French Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin.
France declared a state of emergency on Wednesday for at least 12 days and dispatched hundreds of riot police to the archipelago, as French President Emmanuel Macron called for calm.
The semiautonomous territory is important for France as the European country cements its place as a strategic power player in the Indo-Pacific region.
Political tensions have simmered for years in the archipelago — pitting the island's largely pro-independence Indigenous Kanak communities against the mostly French inhabitants opposed to breaking away from France.
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The papers, all published in the journal Nature, suggest that during sleep, slow electrical waves push the fluid around cells from deep in the brain to its surface.
The new studies come more than a decade after Iliff and Dr. Maiken Nedergaard, a Danish scientist, first proposed that the clear fluids in and around the brain are part of a system to wash away waste products.
It turned out that the waves were acting as a signal, synchronizing the activity of neurons and transforming them into tiny pumps that push fluid toward the brain's surface, the team reported in February in the journal Nature.
In a second paper published in the same issue of Nature, a team led by scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology provided more evidence that slow electrical waves help clear out waste.
In a paper published a few weeks earlier, Kipnis had shown how waste, including amyloid, appeared to be crossing the protective membrane that usually isolates the brain.
So finding ways to help the brain clean itself — perhaps by inducing those slow electrical waves — might prevent a wide array of disorders.
The best part is how this might finally get Netanyahu out of office. He kicked off the war genocide to appease the ultra conservatives, which he needs to hold his government together. If said UCs get hoisted by their own petard, they'll blame him.
I feel like being ground zero and ambivalent and anti non Jewish minorities are all things that I dislike about zionists, so basically same level of complicity to me. The whole dodging mandatory military service thing to help enforce a genocide thing is like… I don’t understand which side of that unholy union I dislike yes but the amount is so high that it’s probably irrelevant
If Paris wants to make an impact, They can ban Bitcoin and AI which is burning an incredible amount of energy. Otherwise let them have their air conditioners. This is stupid.
China has a history of suicide prevention nets, docking pay for not finishing your lunch, millions of undocumented illegal migrant workers, houses full of camgirls "because they're young and need to be controlled", closed apartment complexes with thousands of catfishing "remote workers", and so on. AKA: outsourced slavery.
The real change in retail pricing might be discrimination pricing (or 'surveillance pricing' as it is now called sometimes). Simply speaking, it uses personal data to personalize prices not just for each customer, but also for each customer depending on actual circumstances such as day time, weather, an individual's pay day, and other data, collected through apps, loyalty cards, ...
"If I literally tell you, the price of a six-pack is $1.99, and then I tell someone else the price of a six-pack for them is $3.99, this would be deemed very unfair if there was too much transparency on it,” [University of Chicago economists Jean-Pierre] Dubé said. “But if instead I say, the price of a six-pack is $3.99 for everyone, and that’s fair. But then I give you a coupon for $2 off [through your app] but I don’t give the coupon to the other person, somehow that’s not as unfair as if I just targeted a different price.”
The linked article is a very long read but worth everyone's time. Very insightful.
The race to the bottom continues imagine all the useful things we could be doing instead of this fucking shit just to take more from the pockets of people. Fuck this shit
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