Before going to the store to pick up some menstrual products for my partner, I shave and put on a full face of makeup so the cameras read me as female and don't give me the "clueless man" price gouge.

Another reason they want to ban facemasks

I wonder how long this last until someone breaks them or tik tok mafia starts sharing RFID chip hacks for free meat.

This is going to be defended among the general public with claims like "Actually, if you game the system you get discounts, so only stupid people will suffer from this," in much the same way that McDonald's price hikes were excused/justified, isn't it?

doing my grocery shopping in a goddamn morphsuit to avoid getting gouged

This sounds so cruel and dystopian.

Surge pricing is just another name for price gouging.

I mean knock yourself out, but I'm still ringing up every item as a 50¢ can of generic tomato soup.

Partner: Honey why are you putting ICP face paint on?

Me: Going grocery shopping.

During a hurricane the price of water is going to shoot up like a fucking cricket match. What a cursed society we live in

Why even use labels at that point? Just use facial recognition at check-out to match customers to financial data and charge personalized prices based on income.

Fuckin' Kroger. Moved to an area where they and other big stores are the only options.

Where I used to live, they had a sub called "Lucky's Market" that was semi-fancy, but had decent deals. They killed it to move in directly, dragged their feet, then covid hit and they pivoted to deliver only. So I was already bitter having to shop there.

My opinion improved a bit when people there said they were unionized. Decent deals (but you gotta use their stupid card).

Then their self checkouts started yelling if you move too quickly or slowly scanning.

Now this shit.

Taking measures that make shoplifting obviously more moral than actually paying for things, absolute galaxy brained moves.

Capitalism does inspire innovation; though everyone who is not an investor or executive that can capitalize from said 'innovation' finds it repulsive.

If you see this, you leave the store and never return. And if you work there, you want to burn down the store first.

Did you know you can buy the tags online? and with some electrical know-how you can make them say what you want. A little time and effort and now you have a tag that says whatever price you want on it. If they got switched at the store at that point, well, how would you know? Just work in teams to make the switch less obvious on the cameras.

That’s the final straw, I’m giving up food once and for all.

Wow, just like in Steven Spielberg's Minority Report!

I would simply not shop at the dystopian store center.

Guess I'm wearing juggalo makeup and a some clothes that I'll define my shape next time I'm doing a shop lifting raid at Kroger.

This violates an absolute necessity for a market to qualify as a free market, imo. In order to have a free market, the consumer needs to have access to enough information to make an informed choice (which is why healthcare can't be a free market, but I digress). If I can't even know what the price of a bunch of bananas is going to be, I just have to YOLO it at the register and hope the AI didn't wig the fuck out because of a flash stock market crash or something and mark them up 100,000x between the shelf and the register, it's hard to argue the case for that being a free market. I guess it still technically is, because I could always just say "take the bananas off, please" at the register, but I'm sure these geniuses will come up with something to try and prevent that.

To those who say they wouldn't shop there, there's a lot of folks who don't have a lot of choice in grocers; there's plenty enough towns and communities that have just one (or none, and you just have to drive, if you can afford a car, or else go wherever your massively insufficient local transit system will take you). I wouldn't choose to shop at a store that did this, but then I also have that privilege. I also think another big question to ask is what happens if the big grocery chains collude to more or less implement this together?

I’m going to avoid Kroger all together by not moving to the midwest. They really fucked up this time

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