r/mildlyinfuriating • u/Cyberspace_Sorcerer • 4d ago

I just want to know the price...

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I had to go and scan it at the self checkout to know the price.

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u/FilipinoRich 4d ago

My grocery store tried to do that…i picked up everything in sight and went to a cashier…i’m not in a rush but my most used line that day was “how much? No, no thanks.” Must’ve been hundreds if dollars of unwanted perishables because i didn’t know the price

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u/jeffa_jaffa 4d ago

Oh wow, you sure shoes that retail worker who had absolutely no part of the decision making process & who probably hated the system every bit as much as you!

I’d have just walked out again, rather than needlessly making life hard for someone who had no say in the matter

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u/Jam-Stew 4d ago edited 4d ago

The retail worker makes the same amount per hour regardless, but what I love about this form of protest is that it peacefully wastes the labor time of the business owner and THAT can effect real change. 

Because the alternative to of never listing prices and requiring an app to discover them is that it opens the door to granular level dynamic price discrimination. Businesses love to use harvested data on all of us to get us to pay the maximum we are willing or able. THIS is what they want to normalize. 

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u/newphonehudus 4d ago

I mean. If you're not going to download the app. Its your only choice for finding the prices of the items. 

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u/HarveyH43 4d ago

The worker is likely to be paid by the hour and shouldn’t care.

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u/SecretaryFast1692 4d ago

paid by the hour means they can’t fix it, and that this commenter was giving issues to the wrong people, but not that they shouldn’t care.

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u/Zonel 4d ago

Its to waste labour time so other tasks don’t get done. Then they need more employees costing the business money.

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u/Creative-Painter3911 4d ago

Means the lines back up and the managers need to get more people on registers or other customers start leaving, costing the store money.

The only way they will listen and change is if they lose money.

Cashier gets the same wage whether they check out 10 people or check prices for 1 person.

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u/KnightRyder 4d ago

That would leave no feedback.

Imo, this would be best as it's not only the customer leaving feedback in the proper channels, which is probably going to be ignored, the employees send feedback up the chain.

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u/Successful-Form4693 4d ago

How does this help anyone? You just created an issue for workers that didn't make that business decision.

You're just telling everyone you're an asshole?

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u/SecretaryFast1692 4d ago

yup they’re boldly bragging about either not understanding who’s in charge of things like that so they complain to average employees instead of corporate, or they do understand and they’re boldly bragging about being a dick💀

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u/FilipinoRich 4d ago

They changed it back. Just doing my part to keep people employed.