Biggest US grocery chain investigated over Uber-style surge pricing
Biggest US grocery chain investigated over Uber-style surge pricing
Kroger, America's biggest supermarket chain, is being investigated over its use of electronic price labels on store shelves nationwide. US Senators Elizabeth Warren and Bob Casey announced they were looking into the practice to see if the chain was engaging in surge pricing. So-called 'dynamic pricing' is common in other industries, such as flights, hotels and car-sharing services like Uber . It sees customers paying more or less depending on demand
There are multiple posts on lemmy about the stores switching to digital tags, some of which claim they will "save the customer money", obviously an outright lie as the point is to make more money for the store.
Ex: https://lemmy.world/post/16718848 , https://lemmy.world/post/17161297
I think we can safely say there’s no turning back from this dystopian hellscape now.
If enough people would damage the digital tags their could be.
Yes. Humans choose to allow other humans to suffer, over and over again. In fact, some of them make money from it, and then spend that money spreading the idea that it's good for people to suffer because they're not 'normal' (white, male, heterosexual).
I think you're right but, also, we a tend to discount the effect of having the most greedy and sociopathic people in our society leading it and owning most of the assets.
Not that you've said either way but I think that then gets confused with "human nature."
TIL Kroger is the biggest supermarket chain in the US. I thought it would be Walmart.
Walmart is a retailer, because they sell basically everything, while Kroger only sells groceries. I think that's the distinction they're making.
My local Kroger sells clothes, has dressing rooms, has a pharmacy with a clinic, an attached gas station, and has a decent home goods section.
I think most Walmarts don't really sell groceries. Last time I lived near one, it didn't have any produce, which is really the whole point of a grocery store.
Didn't Kroger just buy another chain, though? That might have been what made them the biggest.
The div1 walmarts without a grocery are mostly phased out I thought? There are only supercenters (general store + grocery) and neighborhood markets (grocery only) in the adjacent states to me.
They are trying to buy Albertson’s. Which sucks since those are the two closest to me and one is far better than the other.
Neighborhood Walmarts are essentially a grocery store. So they do have dedicated grocery stores.
Don't worry, once Kreuger merges and becomes even bigger. All this anti-consumer behavior will disappear.
It practically regulates itself!
And with the Kroger/Albertsons merger likely imminent considering they announced all the stores in my city they're going to close or sell off, it's likely to become the norm and even if it's deemed illegal, the fines won't be enough to matter until they can pay to make it legal. It's not like they can be shut down if they're the only grocery stores.
We keep giving them money and they keep fucking us over! What are we to do?!
Unfortunately some people don't have a choice. The only grocery stores near me are Kroger or Albertsons. I have to drive over an hour to get any other options.
But at the same time, even though I only shop for two, it might end up being cheaper to drive an hour and a half to Costco if shit keeps going the way it is. When you have to pay over $100 on less than a week of groceries, gas prices seem quaint in comparison.
Is stater bros still less corporate-y than Kroger?
It's only in southern California I think, so probably. I just left one to start school, and it wasn't that bad. They were just starting to get much more serious about a greeting program, and they send secret shoppers to evaluate the workers a couple times a month, but that's about it. It's unionized, too, which is nice.
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