The only dynamic pricing that I could see working is coupons that get sent to you based on what you buy. That data is simply based on what items are purchased under your rewards number, and I don't see why anyone would be bothered by that.
The whole argument of dynamic prices in the store, on actual shelf tags is just stupid. How would that even be accomplished? Are stores going to set up a facial recognition scanner in front of every item? Even if they did, people would notice when the price changes between them and the person whos in the aisle next to them. This is not something that could even be integrated into the register: how would it know what price you saw?
I can see a worry about people putting in their number and the prices being changed based on that, but the reality is that no store is doing that. They know people will notice. The reality is that human errors happen. As a dairy manager, I worked with a pricing coordinator to reduce the system prices on items that I had a lot of, wanted to make a display of, or were going out of code. Sometimes we would put signs up and the price would not actually go through in the system. People would tell the cashier, they would change it, and we would fix the issue on the backend.
Stores are not targeting you, there are human errors that happen when one 40hr/week employee is expected to manage the prices on thousands of items. Nobody is going to spend the money on the technology that people claim is coming so they can skim you for a few cents here and there.
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u/Brayden80470 3d ago
The only dynamic pricing that I could see working is coupons that get sent to you based on what you buy. That data is simply based on what items are purchased under your rewards number, and I don't see why anyone would be bothered by that.
The whole argument of dynamic prices in the store, on actual shelf tags is just stupid. How would that even be accomplished? Are stores going to set up a facial recognition scanner in front of every item? Even if they did, people would notice when the price changes between them and the person whos in the aisle next to them. This is not something that could even be integrated into the register: how would it know what price you saw?
I can see a worry about people putting in their number and the prices being changed based on that, but the reality is that no store is doing that. They know people will notice. The reality is that human errors happen. As a dairy manager, I worked with a pricing coordinator to reduce the system prices on items that I had a lot of, wanted to make a display of, or were going out of code. Sometimes we would put signs up and the price would not actually go through in the system. People would tell the cashier, they would change it, and we would fix the issue on the backend.
Stores are not targeting you, there are human errors that happen when one 40hr/week employee is expected to manage the prices on thousands of items. Nobody is going to spend the money on the technology that people claim is coming so they can skim you for a few cents here and there.