They do that anyway, but usually prices going down.
e.g. yellow stickers going on things that will expire soon.
You’ve not lived if you haven’t watched two pensioners fight to the death over a 20p pack of Greek yoghurt.
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NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Should be against the law the change the price after the shop opens at something like a grocery store. Nobody should shop anywhere where the price you pick it up at can change by the time you get to the checkout.
Blackmist@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
That’s a little different.
Items that can expire get marked down at some point during the day, but they aren’t changing the normal price of the item. If there’s 20 packs of chicken beasts on the shelf, 5 or 6 might get the sticker.
There’s no guarantee that the one you have would have even gotten a sticker, and if you’re savvy enough, you might have intentionally chosen the pack with the earliest packed on date.
They aren’t just going up and marking down the main price on everything, and its also always down, never up.
cmhe@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Issue is that haggling is actually legal in many countries.
So at the cashier they will make you an offer, which, if you pay, accept.
Now with technical support making individual offers becomes pretty easy and effordless on their end, but if you are in a hurry you don’t have that technical support to make a counter offer that effordless… So the shopper is at an disadvantage. Either way, your reaction, wherever ypu buy or not will train the AI of the store to extract the maximum amount of money of the broad customer base. If some people are priced out of living, they probably don’t care.
NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Haggling might be fine but they have to honor price tags.
If I’m in a grocery store and I see $1.00 they can’t change it and try to charge me $1.10, and when I object and say it was $1.00 it shows $1.10 now.
HerbalGamer@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
This is why american taxes had me confused when over there… it says $1.00 on the pricetag, so how can they tell me a different price at the register??
frongt@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
The price of the item hasn’t changed, it’s just that they didn’t include tax in the price. Yes, it’s stupid.
cmhe@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Well… In Germany apparently they can.
The price tag is not binding, it is a mere price suggestion. The final price is the one when you actually buy it at the checkout.