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Went to Dillon's the other day. Yogurt went up again! It is now a perfect 100% gouge from where it was 2 years ago.
Let's go Kamala!
Oh, and they farked up the checkout total (like usual) requiring a special trip to the customer service counter for a refund. Straight up ignored my clipped digital coupons. Scammers.
I have since found a new vendor for my yogurt needs. Tastes just the same and 50% less. Voting with my dollars every day for each and every one of you. I hope you are doing the same for me.
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Senators press Kroger on digital price tags, implying price gouging
ESLs are digital price tags that allow companies to engage in dynamic pricing, changing the prices of goods based on temporary factors such as the time of day or the weather.
By updating price tags with the simple click of a button, corporations can price gouge, suddenly raising the consumer costs at times when certain products are in highest demand.
Many grocery chains, including Kroger, have rapidly expanded their use of ESLs in recent years. Kroger began using the technology in 2018 and has since expanded it to 500 stores nationwide.
ESLs may help Kroger extract maximum profits from consumers at a time when Americans are dealing with the cost of grocery prices: high grocery prices are a leading concern among Americans who are concerned about inflation.
Kroger comes under fire for use of electronic shelf labels
Two U.S. senators have raised concerns about the technology leading to price gouging and invading consumer privacy.
Kroger’s ESL device, called Enhanced Display for Grocery Environment (EDGE) Shelf, also threatens consumer privacy, according to the senators. In partnership with Microsoft, Kroger plans to place cameras on its EDGE Shelf displays and use facial recognition to determine information about its shoppers, including gender and age, to push personalized offers and advertisements, per the letter.
The senators wrote that they are “concerned about whether Kroger and Microsoft are adequately protecting consumers’ data, and that as Kroger expands the personalized customer experience, customers will ultimately be offered a worse deal.”
Kroger’s emailed statement did not address the senators’ concerns about the alleged risk to consumer data privacy.
Warren and Casey have asked Kroger to answer more than 10 questions by Aug. 20 defending and explaining the use of ESL technology, including:- For all items that have been subject to dynamic pricing using EDGE, what is the average percentage change in price of those items over the first six months of using the system?
- Has Kroger ever used EDGE to change the price of an item more than one time within the same day?
- Will customers have the option to opt out of the collection of personal data through ESL platforms?
- How will Kroger ensure that it will not use customer data related to ESL platforms to discriminate based on protected classes, such as race, gender or age, when offering personalized prices?
Imagine a scenario where you go pick up a bag of frozen blueberries, then an older man picks up the same bag an hour later and he pays $.50 more than you did. A response to supply chain balance? Lol! Likely not! It will be worth BILLIONS to Kroger. Wal-Mart is trying it too!
And before you go to auto-screech mode because it's the famous "Indian" activist Elizabeth Warren leading the charge... the American consumer needs voices like hers to balance against powerful special interests. Every single time you go to buy food, shelter, clothing, automobiles, etc., there are consumer protection laws making your experience safer and saving you an incredible amount of money.
Again Capitalism only works in the presence of a fairly honest market. If your market "opponent" has a large advantage over you and gained said advantage through dishonest means, then govermental regulations are required to rebalance the playing field. This is how it has to be and how it has always been. Property rights being numero uno.
Warren is the consumer screecher. She fights many battles - some illadvised - but still... without a Warren or two out there shining a bleeding heart flashlight on anything and everything, your children would be eating bits of plastic/glass in their morning gerber.
Open your eyes to reality. Moderate your kneejerk reactions to ANYTHING eminating outside of your tribal leader's cakehole.
You wanna know what life would be like without robust consumer advocacy action in Washington?
Read the following:
Food safety scandal rocks China as report claims cooking oil carried in same trucks as fuel
Hong KongCNN —
Public outrage is mounting in China over allegations that a major state-owned food company has been cutting costs by using the same tankers to carry fuel and cooking oil – without cleaning them in between.
The scandal, which implicates China’s largest grain storage and transport company Sinograin, and private conglomerate Hopefull Grain and Oil Group, has raised concerns of food contamination in a country rocked in recent decades by a string of food and drug safety scares – and evoked harsh criticism from Chinese state media.
It was an “open secret” in the transport industry that the tankers were doing double duty, according to a report in the state-linked outlet Beijing News last week, which alleged that trucks carrying certain fuel or chemical liquids were also used to transport edible liquids such as cooking oil, syrup and soybean oil, without proper cleaning procedures.Comment
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Since the government prints money for all of the programs, regulations, bureaucracy, and money, they give away, if you’re rich (like Kamala), you don’t worry about it. If you’re an immigrant, you are doing better under government give away programs.
If if you’re neither, just deal with it. Work harder. Grow your own food. Build your own house, do your own renovating. But Stop complaining.Comment
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"You Just Want to Slap The #### Outta Some People"Comment
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Matt Viser @mviser
Arriving at Air Force Two, Kamala Harris was asked “what’s next?” “We’re going to walk up those stairs,” she replied. Asked what’s after that: ‘Win. We’re gonna win’ She didn’t respond to a question about RFK Jr.Comment
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Too soon to reply to anything concerning RFK. She has to go to the puppet masters for instructions before commenting.Originally posted by pinstripers View PostComment
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Newsome on kamala's nomination.
"We went through a very open process, a very inclusive process. It was bottom-up, I don’t know if you know that. That’s what I’ve been told to say," Newsom said as he laughed during a talk with "Pod Save America" posted Friday.
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But does she talk and laugh like Kamala?Originally posted by pinstripers View PostPeople who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do. -Isaac Asimov
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Who else posts fake **** all day in order to maintain the acrimony? Wingnuts, that's who.Comment
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She just said everything Cold doesn’t want to admit himself.
Ouchies.Deuces Valley.
... No really, deuces.
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I mean, why would you give a million bucks to a candidate, in return for them to do nothing for you? You would pay the mafia money to leave you alone, though. Which kind of makes more sense of how the government operates."When life hands you lemons, make lemonade." Better have some sugar and water too, or else your lemonade will suck!Comment
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