r/mildlyinfuriating • u/Cyberspace_Sorcerer • 3d 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 3d 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 3d 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 3d ago edited 3d 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 3d 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 3d ago

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

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u/SecretaryFast1692 3d 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 3d 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 3d 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 3d 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.