Comment on The rent is too damn algorithmic — DC Attorney General Brian Schwalb is investigating RealPage, a company that helps landlords set rent prices, for potential antitrust violations

phx@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• Pika@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I would much rather have to deal with digital tags then stupid paper based ones. If they were done properly it should just be a simple “update price” and it sets to both. With paper tags you have employees that don’t update all locations so you get discrepancies.

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  • phx@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    And with digital tags they can update at any time, so unless you’ve got a video camera running to price that bread was $3.99 and not $4.99 when you picked it up off the shelf…

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• Eheran@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  What about them?

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  • slumberlust@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    They commonly don’t reflect the actual price at checkout. It’s difficult for consumers to track and catch, and be if apathy (they didn’t get around to changing the prices which are sometimes volatile) or malevolence, it’s still an issue.

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    • mosiacmango@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Just wait until you use that stores phone app and the wifi/mac address sensors stores already use to track generic customer habits also dynamically updates the price based on your past purchases and public data about you as a person.

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    • Eheran@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Ooof, wow. That would be illegal in my country.

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