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.