• Saapas@piefed.zip
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    6
    ·
    3 days ago

    Interesting you’d think every single person would have to pay attention to every single product to notice surge pricing. But it’s just one of those things that yeah, someone would notice and it would actually be newsworthy for someone to start doing that here. They’d be the first to bringing in an immediately hated practise.

    But hey, maybe you’re right and they’re managed to do it without anyone knowing. You never know I guess. I just don’t believe that.

    • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      1
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      3 days ago

      No. But in order to say, with as much certainty and conviction as you have, that it is not happening at all ever, you would.

      • Saapas@piefed.zip
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        7
        ·
        3 days ago

        No I wouldn’t personally have to follow every single price. Others are watching prices too, that’s just normal stuff. Not to mention the people who actually work at these stores.

        What’s more likely in your opinion, that they have managed to introduce this new controversial pricing scheme without people finding out, not even their own workers, or that they’ve just not done it? I don’t know man, sounds unlikely to me.

        Without anything to support it it’s just one of those conspiracy theories.

        • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          1
          arrow-down
          1
          ·
          3 days ago

          You seem to be assuming that we’re talking about massive shifts in prices, not changes of a few cents here and there to test the waters.

          • Saapas@piefed.zip
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            5
            ·
            3 days ago

            People notice even small stuff. I notice it too on some products. Not to mention the workers would know about it, corporate would know about it etc.

            I mean if you have something to support this theory then I’m really interested to see it but at this point this is just a conspiracy theory.

            • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
              link
              fedilink
              arrow-up
              2
              arrow-down
              3
              ·
              edit-2
              3 days ago

              My support for the theory is capitalism. Look around. There’s no way that these tags are not being planned to be used that way. We are literally in the comment section of a post where an industry analyst, someone who ostensibly knows what they’re talking about, says they’re going to do exactly that. Get real.

              If it isn’t happening already, it will be happening soon.

              • Saapas@piefed.zip
                link
                fedilink
                English
                arrow-up
                5
                ·
                3 days ago

                We’re talking about if it is happening where I live. You seem certain it is. I’d like to see something better than “get real” to support that, if you don’t mind.