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The Emperor's Lounge
#1

A request. Please do better than this:

Grocery store prices are changing faster than ever before — literally. This month, Walmart became the latest retailer to announce it’s replacing the price stickers in its aisles with electronic shelf labels. The new labels allow employees to change prices as often as every ten seconds.

“If it’s hot outside, we can raise the price of water and ice cream. If there’s something that’s close to the expiration date, we can lower the price — that’s the good news,” said Phil Lempert, a grocery industry analyst.

This has to be the most disgusting thing I’ve read all day. I read another article about how they’re doing the same thing with rent prices, evicting everyone in an area and using AI to determine what people are “willing” to pay, with the obvious trick here being that they’ll use this to skyrocket prices, hence the reason for the evictions.

This is one of the reasons I try to avoid the news in the morning. Puts me in a bad mood all day, but this article showed up on The Verge.

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#2

why this effected you so much?

#3

I see this kind of things as great news, the intention behind this might seem negative but the actual result is positive because it forces people into greater awareness in their shopping behavior and general behavior toward what they consume and how they consume it.

Forget politics, we vote with our attention and money.

I believe that as human beings awake more and more to their true loving self, these type of businesses will fall.

Thanks for sharing this kind of news of disgusting behavior, I personally take this as a hope filled news, the old world crumbling, a step further into darkness manifested means we are getting closer to the light.

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#4

This!

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#5

i dont think this will change much

Supply and demand is the biggest source of pricing everywhere

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#6

I think people will rebel the more these types of practices increase.The genius of the collective is undeniable.

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#7

The best we can do is support the local farmers market over big corporations like walmart.

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#8

I would see this as righteous anger, saint is urging us to create better businesses to overcome this absurdity

#9

Sorry for this rant but…

It’s highly likely they will not rebel.

I’ll give you a perfect example. We all benefit from end 2 end encryption. The recent AI chips being put in all electronics spells the end of end 2 end encryption as we know it.

The AI chips allow the software to snap photos of your screen often and then process it and save it before any messages are ever encrypted.

For now all that data will be stored on the chip, but in the future, likely the cloud.

Who will guarantee that your messages are being spied on by government AI systems that are processing everyone’s messages and flagging and tracking as necessary?

Is anybody rebelling against this? Nope. I only saw one guy follow this line of reasoning.

I’m positive on AI and it’s potential positive impact on society, and I’m aware of how it can be misused by people.

Likewise, @SaintSovereign is aware of how this pricing tech will be used to create value for the companies while not creating value for the customers.

What happens when they plugin in a profit increasing algorithm that gauges in-store traffic & demand then prices accordingly?

It is likely to cause people to spend more than they otherwise would.

Is that really a benefit to customers and society to pay 15% more than you normally would for the same thing, just because more people are in the store?

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#10

I’ve been thinking about this for awhile, but what if you made a title that made you able to live a life without having to use money. I know that is a tall order in this day and age but just an idea. I can put it up on the road map if you want. but chosen WoN might accomplish this. thoughts?

#11

Money is like air, if you don’t have enough, you’ll feel it, when you have more than enough, you’ll barely think about it.

And when you do it won’t be from a place of scarcity, unless you haven’t dealt with your beliefs around this.

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#12

There’s a hardware store near me that uses these e-ink price tags on shelves… not for jacking up prices on fasteners when there’s a building boom, but for pushing out updates when there are sales, etc. I usually like them, except when they glitch and the whole aisle turns into an e-ink rave…

I get that supply and demand are important factors in pricing, and I am quite thoroughly a libertarian capitalist… but there’s “it’s just business” fair and then there’s a f-you boot in your face.

As for AI spying… Windows 10 will possibly be the last version of Windows that I use, because of that very reason… I heard Microsoft has recalled Recall (ha!) but it’ll be back, in some other form, for sure.

recallinator

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#13

im talking about stepping outside of the system altogether. not trying to have more money.

and I think its kinda sick that people are essentially being force to pay more and more for their essential living (food water shelter). most people don’t like their jobs and are just doing it for the money.

#14

This kind of abusive structures are sadly often used by (micro)monopolies and people don’t have many other options. They don’t work in a healthy market with options.

It is however a pretty good point for an entrepreneur on where to put the crowbar first.

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#15

Well if that’s what you’re looking for, maybe they’ll create Durden one day.

In the meantime , DRGold sounds like what you’re looking for with it’s focus on freedom

#16

I read something like this with the restaurant Wendy’s… but they said they are not going to use surge pricing like that…

And hopefully not with most apartments :scream:

As for Walmart…

The ability to easily change prices wasn’t mentioned in Walmart’s announcement that 2,300 stores will have the digitized shelf labels by 2026. Daniela Boscan, who participated in Walmart’s pilot of the labels in Texas, said the label’s key benefits are “increased productivity and reduced walking time,” plus quicker restocking of shelves

#17

Yes. The principle of supply and demand will remain.

But the social architecture around that principle will continue to shift and evolve as it always has.

That principle once drove and maintained legalized human slavery and openly economically-motivated violence. Today those realities are in the process of morphing and vanishing. Not completely gone; but morphing to the point of eventual unrecognizability.

Value sets the terms of supply and demand, because Value is the foundation of Demand.

As our values evolve, what we demand and how we demand it evolves as well.

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#18

“If something is made from GMO Insects, we can manipulate prices to make it more attractive – that’s great news!”

:smiling_imp:

Guess its time to bring out the guns.

:wink:

:rofl:

#20

An updated eog has never been so important!!!

Sorry, don’t throw things at me.

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#21

Originally posted by @emperor_obewan

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