• ᴍᴜᴛɪʟᴀᴛɪᴏɴᴡᴀᴠᴇ @lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    3 days ago

    Right, and they’re going to do this daily, or even multiple times per day? Not a chance without digital pricing.

    Digital pricing also changes in an instant, leaving customers little or no recourse. Personally if I saw someone manually marking up an item I intended to buy by a couple dollars, I wouldn’t buy that item and maybe wouldn’t revisit the store.

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      3 days ago

      Ohh this bottle of water went up $0.12, rush to the shelf! print, peel peel peel, wipe, stick

      We occasionally did this at Best Buy back in the day when a neighboring retailer would put on a sale. Sometimes things would be missed in the AM adverts or it would be a local sale rather than a corporate sale, but it would be more like a $50 change on a $1000 item.

      I wonder if they take into account someone putting something in their cart at one price and it changing before they reach the checkout. Like would you preserve the lower of the two prices for 15 minutes to make sure customers don’t see it changing and get mad?