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“Surveillance pricing”. Your invented term? Kudos to you or whoever. Fking genius.

seems like a good time to remind people that if you see someone stealing groceries, no you didn't

Omg I love this

I've always thought politicians were for the donor class

The Repubs are soooo good at propaganda: "Yes, please, take away any regulations that protect me from pollution, or price gouging! Reach for my wallet and give it all to Big Corpo! Hurt me some more, Daddy!" Waste, fraud and abuse are bad. trump accepting giant bribes? prosecuting enemies? so good

Cc: @elizabeth-warren.bsky.social

Can we pass a similar law in Washington state @cantwell.senate.gov @murray.senate.gov @atg.wa.gov @governorferguson.bsky.social ?

imagine standing in front of the pickles and an electronic voice commanding you to remove your mask / glasses so they can figure out who you are in order to decide how much to charge you maybe it's time to avoid Big Grocery. will Aldi and trader Joe's do this, too? The farmer's market??

If there were ever an industry begging for serious regulation, this would be it. This should be immediately and forever illegal.

IKR? Do we have to start wearing surgical masks and sunglasses in the grocery store?

“Minority Report” comes immediately to mind…

This is the reason restaurants are switching from printed menus to QR codes

“You will pay whatever you can afford” is the Oligarch-Approved method of wealth distribution. Soon it will become universal and mandatory.

Worse than that, they support pushing this scummy practice for their corporate billionaire friends.

If we don’t explicitly the outlaw, all venues will do it and then you’ll be stuck no matter who you go to with a high price based on them, not liking you basically.

Sure as hell hope any time someone sees that they close the app and order from somewhere else.

Rent-seeking bastards don't add value, just suck it out of us all.

Support legislation to prohibit this, as is under consideration in Washington state: app.leg.wa.gov/billsummary?...

Thanks for the hashtag, Ronan. #SurveillancePricing #PrivacyIsDead

Who's gonna keep this whole thing on the rails when consumers decide not to buy what the gangsters are selling? It seems the greedhead have figured out how to extract everything of value . . . but what if we stop buying? Maybe it will become legal to debit our payment methods whether we buy or not

What is New York Governor Kathy Hochul doing about this corporate price scamming? #KathyHochul

Eat a billionaire

Do we need to use Tor for Doordash now?

does this work with a ny vpn?

This is so creepy.

Wow

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Me, too! I wonder if the cameras will screen for some cheapskate facial characteristic. Do we have unique frown lines? Or resting skeptic face? I put time into shopping. Price comparisons, shrinkage... I'm the one who abandons stuff in my virtual cart over price. Is it possible I'll be rewarded?

You better get a patent. It will happen if profiling becomes the norm.

Brilliant!

Those laws have all been torn up. New laws made to prevent states from protecting their own. After musk stole all our data, it felt a bit moot to many of us, I think. the fight seems impossible considering every other right we're losing :/ Overwhelm

What happens when you leave your phone at home?

Ban algorithm pricing

lucky for me i can’t afford anything and have been practicing ethical cannibalism with all my friends

Well I figure with the rich switching to just having us murdered in the streets blatantly on camera hopefully the people responsible will be hanging by lampposts by the mid 2040's

Outrageous

People forget how radical Wanamaker’s was at the time. The price tag changed business relations for more than a century and a half.

Corporations are abusing their own customers, as well as the workers, without whom they wouldn't exist. Shopping local supports your neighbors, not some billionaire. Paying cash saves small businesses money and doesn't tell BigBroTech everything you're buying. Fuck these greedy bastards!

"Well, Big Corpos, you've come to the right administration!" So much is happening as a result of bribes, and none of it is good for the rest of us :/

How exactly ( and wtf!) Does uber monitor.my battery? What else are they checking up on? Time to get a "burner"?

I am not even remotely exaggerating when I say I would commit fucking arson against any store that implemented this. Send that demonic shit back to hell where it belongs.

Warning is nice but this practice just needs to be fully banned

Ok now do taxes

"Lowering prices" via tech is the new "national security" as an excuse for virtually every govt abuse. Just one bullshit excuse after another for making our lives worse.

Will clearing cookies and history protect against this or are there other measures when making an online purchase?

Well I’m super poor so does that mean they will price them eggs at $1.00 for me because my breaking point is on the floor at this point

I already know all this because I subscribe to @prospect.org Did you really not come across their work in doing this?

This is why I do not shop at Wal-Mart or use Uber.

Corruption.

Makes me feel even better about NEVER using ”services” like this.

Well my abandon point is very low. I’m still mad they were allowed to put those little stickers on produce. I hate buy pre packaged, pre cut produce. Why can’t I buy stalks of broccoli?

(5/11) Walmart, Whole Foods, and Kohls are switching to electronic shelf labels that can display dynamic prices. Kroger deployed them with Microsoft AI—a setup a 2024 Senate inquiry warned could enable “surge pricing” via facial recognition. (Kroger claims it will only lower prices.)

well, they say no, the markup is just what I figured help.shipt.com/do-you-charg...

so a loaf of bread for billionaires will cost $300? Or, are they just going to gouge everyone else?

Give me just 1 reason I should use any uber? Well, OK i live in Germany

Once again, protecting your own data will go a long way in protecting you and your loved ones from such surveillance pricing. If you see ads on your devices, you are not there yet…

NY Assembly Member @amemeritatorres.bsky.social successfully fought to get that mandatory disclosure law passed last year. Now she’s introduced a new bill that would ban surveillance pricing altogether: www.cityandstateny.com/opinion/2026...

That’s piss poor legislation if the disclosure is compliant with the info alone that they set the prices dynamically without disclosing how it was calculated 😂