The way Kroger works is that they absolutely ream you with the price-gouging if you don’t let them track your purchases through your “kroger plus” card.
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Substance_P@lemmy.world 1 week ago
People please, use ca$h!
grue@lemmy.world 1 week ago
AA5B@lemmy.world 1 week ago
We don’t have a Krogers but that behavior is enough to not use the stores that do this.
TORFdot0@lemmy.world 1 week ago
And so at small stores ran by local owners who can’t afford surveillance equipment and aren’t obsessed with profit
misterdoctor@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Genuinely asking, what difference would it make if I walk into the QFC, get immediately Face ID’d, grab a box of pop tarts that are arbitrarily priced higher because some AI told Kroger that my social status indicated I’d pay top dollar for frosted blueberry, if I pay cash or card at the checkout counter?
Brain@lemmy.zip 1 week ago
I’ve read some comments on other articles about this saying that by using cash and avoiding the loyalty card they won’t have the data that shows how often you buy certain products and if you buy them at regular price or only during sales. I don’t know if that’s true, but it does seem somewhat logical to me that the AI is going to use your past purchases against you, they already use that same idea to send me paper coupons once a month based on stuff I usually buy.
_core@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
That’s absolutely not true. They have your face which they can put a name on, they know which checkout you went to and everything you bought, if it’s on sale or not, if it’s within your usual purchase baseline, etc etc, all of which goes into their tracking system.
redacted2@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Those people are just in denial. Look up clearview AI, The are paid by walmart and lowes and target,… They don’t care if you pay cash or with shmeckles or if you use a painted rock as a phone. They know you anyways. “smile, your on camera”