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You’re at Walmart doing grocery shopping, and you fill your cart with all kinds of foods. Are you going to realize the tomatoes are ringing up at $2.51/lbs when the label was $2.40 in?

I don’t think it would be illegal, the price tag is not a contract and it’s often mislabeled today. The question is, can you get people to accept that the price will go up or down before you checkout, and will they just pay when it goes up or create a new stock return inventory?

If the chicken you’ve been walking around the store with went up and you decided you didn’t want it anymore, that’s straight to the trash. What products will they target with this?

I think it’s more likely to go down during the day to compete with other stores than to go up on you, but who knows what these greedy fucks are going to do.

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daychilde@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

Are you going to realize the tomatoes are ringing up at $2.51/lbs when the label was $2.40 in?

You’re telling me in this day of grocery prices impacting us that nobody would notice this happening? All it takes is for a very few people noticing it for people to riot.

I would be MORE surprised if there are NOT cases of people claiming this is happening when it’s not.

Also, if there are rumours that it is happening, there will be people who take pics of prices on the shelves and compare that to the checkout price. If they find it happening, they WILL post and people WILL be up in arms about it.

Another person replying mentioned gas. People drive miles out of the way to save a nickel per gallon - average tank is like 10-20 gallons, give or take, meaning they will spend a couple of dollars to “save” 50¢-$1.00 or so. People are not rational about these things, and if they try it, someone will catch it, and when they catch it, all hell will break loose.

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HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
i remember numbers, so yes?

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- 3abas@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  That’s cool. I don’t think you’re an average consumer.
  
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  - HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    nah. i worked with numbers for 25 years. i’m well below average. can’t even do arithmetic anymore unless it’s all variables.
    
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