Comment on Walmart Is Putting Digital Labels That Change Prices Instantly on Every Store Shelf in America
technomage@lemmy.ca 4 days agoNo, Canadian companies pull the same bullshit too. Consumer protection laws are little more than “agreements” that many companies are directly pulling out of. In particular with grocery stores, if Galen Weston (the owner of the largest family of grocery chains in the country) wants it, it happens. Look into the bread price fixing situation from a few years back. Nothing actually came of it on a legal front, aside from metaphorically smacking the companies on the nose with a rolled up newspaper and being told they’re being bad.
EldritchFeminity@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 days ago
Fair enough. Have companies up there talked about “surge pricing” as well? I remember from this past summer companies like Wal Mart were talking about using electronic price tags to update prices in real time at different times of day and different seasons depending on demand. Given examples were things like increasing the price of water and ice on hot days or ready made meals around lunch and dinner time.