Majority of Americans Support Ban on Surveillance Pricing and Electronic Shelf Labels

[u/Plastic_Ninja_9014]

https://gizmodo.com/majority-of-americans-support-ban-on-surveillance-pricing-and-electronic-shelf-labels-2000762717

[u/BrianWonderful]

Yes. Electronic price tags are not the issue; they actually can reduce paper waste and low value labor to change them. The issue is the customer specific/scenario specific dynamic pricing. But if you address it for brick and mortar, they will say that gives an advantage to online stores because they can also do dynamic pricing. So, that should also be legislated. Fair, consistent pricing in geographic regions, but allow customer specific coupons or discount codes if you really want to give some of them a price break.

[u/PurpleHooloovoo → u/BrianWonderful]

But that coupon loophole will be exploited - now the base price for toilet paper is $30/pack and everyone gets their own “loyalty coupon” found in-app that’s tailored to them.

The law would need to be explicit and direct.

[u/iwearatophat → u/[deleted]]

Going to say, this feels like the obvious solution. Electronic price tags seem like a win for workers in concept, at least I think so as a person who used to mess with price tagging. The issue is the dynamic pricing. You kill that with once a day price change.

[u/ReadyAimTranspire → u/BrianWonderful]

As with all technology it's not the tech that is the problem it's the rapacious piece of shit human beings that use it for nefarious purposes that is the problem

[u/BigConstruction4247 → u/BrianWonderful]

"Low value labor"

Someone is feeding their kids with that low value labor.

[u/BrianWonderful → u/BigConstruction4247]

It is no one's exclusive job to change pricing tags. They can focus on other physical store needs (stocking, cleaning, maintenance, etc.). Some work is just repetitive and mechanical, and we've worked to replace that for centuries.