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
Sure this bot is annoying, but why is everyone down voting it? Am I out of the loop or something?
From what I remember is that the bias reports themselves are quite biased. I believe to favour pro-semitic media’s, but I’m not too sure about it.
I could see that. They do seem to favor specific websites. I understand the idea behind it but the execution is mediocre.