Price gouge algorithms is a good name for them
I wonder if it is possible to confuse the cameras. Figure out what criteria make a price lower (skin color? time of day? no idea), then dress up like that / wear a mask with a face printed on it or something.
Shopping there is already an exercise in gouge-tolerance. The cheapest options for any given product are always sold out or close to it, while the expensive name brands are stocked to the brim. Everything is getting smaller, pricier, and made with cheaper and cheaper filler. I don’t think they even use flour in Kroger brand bread anymore.
What’s even more fucked up is we are overproducing food on a scale that is destroying the soil and a huge portion of food goes to waste well before it is even processed for sale (don’t feel upset for tossing away leftovers… all of our leftovers combined are a drop in the waste bucket).
Yet despite this they insist on cutting more and more corners. In the 19th they did this and produced highly toxic results… and it was not only outlawed, but American food production made the prices so cheap that it was not needed anymore.
Yet we have shit being done today that would still shock people back then.
Some of us out here are gonna reveal our human powered Kroger gouger
Between this and the Japanese grocery store with the Company Face, I’m wondering how much are we going to have to bribe pay Charles Stross to write the book where the good guys win
@o7___o7 (Checks …) you may like “A Conventional Boy” (coming next January 7th)? And if I ever get “Ghost Engine” (the space opera) done, that has a happy ending.