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I do keep track of how much things cost, yeah? I thought everyone did that. But also, kinda interesting if nobody else has noticed it either, because it would be legit newsworthy thing here if someone took up surge pricing
Everything? You pay attention to the prices of every item at every store around you? OK
Interesting you'd think every single person would have to pay attention to every single product to notice surge pricing. But it's just one of those things that yeah, someone would notice and it would actually be newsworthy for someone to start doing that here. They'd be the first to bringing in an immediately hated practise.
But hey, maybe you're right and they're managed to do it without anyone knowing. You never know I guess. I just don't believe that.
No. But in order to say, with as much certainty and conviction as you have, that it is not happening at all ever, you would.
No I wouldn't personally have to follow every single price. Others are watching prices too, that's just normal stuff. Not to mention the people who actually work at these stores.
What's more likely in your opinion, that they have managed to introduce this new controversial pricing scheme without people finding out, not even their own workers, or that they've just not done it? I don't know man, sounds unlikely to me.
Without anything to support it it's just one of those conspiracy theories.
You seem to be assuming that we're talking about massive shifts in prices, not changes of a few cents here and there to test the waters.
People notice even small stuff. I notice it too on some products. Not to mention the workers would know about it, corporate would know about it etc.
I mean if you have something to support this theory then I'm really interested to see it but at this point this is just a conspiracy theory.
My support for the theory is capitalism. Look around. There's no way that these tags are not being planned to be used that way. We are literally in the comment section of a post where an industry analyst, someone who ostensibly knows what they're talking about, says they're going to do exactly that. Get real.
If it isn't happening already, it will be happening soon.
We're talking about if it is happening where I live. You seem certain it is. I'd like to see something better than "get real" to support that, if you don't mind.
I have literally several years worth of notebooks full of what items costed at various locations. Paper shopping list, write the price down of the item on that specific trip at that location.
Started so I could compare costco prices to Walmart to local grocer because size and sales aren't always guarantees of best price. My local grocer in particular often charges extra for the bulk version.
You aren't the first to suggest this crazy but I was at one point feeding enough children that this mattered. I was using pricing to determine final cost of each meal and would drop meals in a out of rotation based purely on cost.
This was also a fun teaching opportunity, make the kids mentally add up all the prices with multiplers and coupons and try to see who gets closest to the actual total. Also to always do the math to determine per unit price whole accounting for sales and coupons.
Most of them are adults now but I still have a mental model around pricing. It's also how I know prices have increased by 50-150%, cpi and other stats be damned.