25 points

Time to invent The Shopping Mask.

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Cool, I’ll continue not buying from them.

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Any kind of surge pricing by for profit companies providing basic needs should be illegal full stop

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Any kind of surge pricing by for profit companies providing basic needs should be illegal full stop

Fixed that for you

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I think there stands a case to have discount surge pricing on cheque days for example to ease the burden of poverty framing the “surge” as increased store volume opposed to prices but yea now that I type it out a different term is needed lol

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Ralph’s in SoCal used to be a midrange grocery store. These days, its prices are sometimes higher than Whole Foods! I feel like most large grocery chains are moving to a premium price point. They aren’t interested in providing food for everyday families

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Ralph’s and Kroger are the same company, FYI.

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That’s my point!

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I bet they are responding to the prices in the shopping services apps.

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What’s wild is I’m not even mad about this to some extent. Like personalized price adjustments just feels like better couponing. Its just the fact the majority of people’s food needs are met by for profit companies means that the well being of their customers are not even on the table of shit they track for.

Worse yet, we KNOW they are selling this data and our privacy is 100% not a concern of theirs either.

If my local grocery coop, farmers market did this, and gave reasonable efforts to keep their systems local, secure, data lean, and optional. I wouldn’t even be mad. This is none of those things and done, again, by people that would crush orphans for profit if there was a market for it.

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