A Boring Dystopia

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Consumer, we have detected that you are above the poverty line. The 99¢ price printed on this Arizona tea can only applies to those below the poverty line. Your total comes to $3.67. (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 83 points 4 months ago (6 children)

I shop at Jewel (which is currently under threat of being taken over by Kroger) and they're now doing this thing where there will be, for instance, peaches, under a huge sign showing an incredible deal. Then you look at it and realize that the price isn't discounted at all unless you install a "Jewel App" and use it to "claim" a "digital coupon."

[–] [email protected] 24 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Kroger also does that :(

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago

At least with Kroger you don't have to have the app, you can use their website for everything

[–] [email protected] 23 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Two major supermarkets do this in the UK now. I fucking hate it, it should be illegal. I also noticed recently a store with digital price labels. Combine the two and we're marching towards the news in the post at a breakneck speed.

Many supermarkets do adjust their prices based on the average income of the location they're in, so this isn't really different in some ways.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago

I've been shopping at shitty Jewels all my life and I'm moving to an area where I can choose Jewel or Mariano's. I was super excited to find this out until they announced as part of the merger, they would sell off a bunch of stores most of which are Mariano's including the one I would have started going to. I Reeeeeeally hope the merger doesn't go through.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

How is that legal?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago

Regulatory capture and the Federal Trade Commission asleep at the wheel.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Big Y in the Northeast does that well. That's probably the biggest reason why I don't regularly shop there anymore

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

I think I still have a "gold coin" floating around somewhere from their previous system.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

ShopRite by me is doing that.

We mostly stopped buying at ShopRite (mostly, because there are some things we can only get there due to dietary restrictions, and they carry things others don't).

I don't think we were the only ones though, because that was gone the last time we were there. It could also be due to the Stop and Shop being "digital coupons only" and being forced to close recently. Don't know for certain. It could just have been a test run for them and they will bring it back later, no idea.

Either way, I have no interest in having their app on my phone. I toyed with the idea of using a cheap tablet I've got and don't touch to install the app on it and connect to in store wifi only.