Canada

Combined with other interconnected devices and AI technology, the labels can also be used to make the shopping experience more personalized by performing “advanced data collection and analysis,” which leads to “greater profits and higher levels of consumer trust,” according to JRTech Solutions Inc., the Canadian retailer Sobeys is getting the labels from.

Dolansky agreed that for the average shopper, the changes often go unnoticed. “A lot of these items we just pick up and put in the cart without looking at the price at all,” he said.

Excuse me?! Go back to Dimension X, you Lizard-person

dynamic pricing

barely measurable [to consumers]

/goose meme

If the dynamic pricing is barely noticeable, then why do the stores need it?

How is it legal for a price to be different between when you read the price on the shelf and when they charge you?

If consumers can't opt out of spying and data collection while they are buying food, then these companies shouldn't exist. How unethical do grocery stores have to be before we end their privatization?

Grocery stores change their store music based on age groups and other characteristics that tend to visit at various times. Here's a mediocre source, I can't find one anymore that called out stores targeting specific demographics of people based on time of day.

So to me personally, I could infer that if they know old people shop on weekday mornings and young people on weekday nights and weekends, then fiddling around with the price every hour based on perceived ability-to-pay may amount to price-discrimination by age group, gender or ethnicity.

They are already using them in Italy but the prices are not dynamic, mostly because they are forced to mark the date in which the price is valid. They also have to respect prices in printed documents (like catalogs or flyers) so it's virtually impossible to change prices on the go.

Ive seen the tags, but pretty sure dynamic pricing breaks the law.

Well it's time to get a faraday bag for my phone.

This is just discrimination. They're trying to figure out how to squeeze every last cent out of our pockets. They've already squeezed us as it is! If I can, I'll avoid any place that does this.

I wonder how difficult it'll be to mess with them. Can they be hacked? How easy can they be broken?

Edit: Actually, the only way I would accept this is if they had a database online where everyone could scan and scrape the data. If it was constantly being analyzed and they could prove they weren't screwing people, then sure, why not. It actually might convince me to shop there more if that were the case. That would probably be more fair than what they do now. As it stands, it's not like we can see how they change prices day to day all that efficiently. But I could see how they could use these to abuse prices a ton.