• Thurstylark@lemm.ee
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    1 month ago

    I think the main concern is that this is a step towards normalizing extremely frequent price changes, a la Uber surge pricing.

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      1 month ago

      That’s exactly what this is. All stores will eventually do this and prices will fluctuate throughout the day.

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        1 month ago

        isn’t it pretty much what amazon’s been doing since the beginning? the difference being there’s no “app” like camel yet to track prices over time at a single store

        but yea, still another reason not to go to walmart. how do they mitigate the problem of something being $X when you put it in your cart, and the price being X+whatever by the time you get through the 2 mile long line at one of the 2 open registers?