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grte@lemmy.ca to Canada@lemmy.ca · 26 days ago

Ban on ‘surveillance pricing’ could threaten discounts, retailers warn

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Ban on ‘surveillance pricing’ could threaten discounts, retailers warn

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grte@lemmy.ca to Canada@lemmy.ca · 26 days ago
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As the Carney government signals a crackdown on surveillance pricing, major retailers are lobbying for weaker guardrails.

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    It won’t. There’ve been sales before all this tracking. Only thing it threatens is raising the price arbitrarily for individuals.

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    Can you imagine as an old person you hang outside of a grocery store: psst, hey kid I’ll give you a dollar to go buy me some back medicine. They know my card number and its 50% cheaper if you buy it for me.

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    Won’t somebody think of the scammers?!

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      Oh those poor scammers wont be able to rake in millions of extra dollars.

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    I’d consider that a worthwhile trade.

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    [X] Doubt.

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      It’s more of a threat than the warning they are pretending it is.

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    These people depend on us having goldfish memory… they be right to a great extent.

  • grte@lemmy.caOP
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    Off with their heads. Metaphorically.

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      “Metaphorically.”

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    Boo fuckin’ hoo.

    Charge what you need for a modest net profit. Surveillance pricing is just the perfect refinement of capitalist cruelty.

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