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Kroger's Plan to Use Facial Recognition Raises Concerns About Surge Pricing (gizmodo.com)
3 points by belter 5 days ago | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment





> “To be clear, Kroger does not and has never engaged in ‘surge pricing.’ Any test of electronic shelf tags is designed to lower prices for more customers where it matters most. To suggest otherwise is not true,” the statement continued.

Yeah, right. Pull the other one.

Prices will be "lowered" in the exact same way that loyalty card programs "save" you money: the base prices are raised and the "discount" brings the price down to where it normally would have been in the absence of the program.




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