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The rent is too damn algorithmic — DC Attorney General Brian Schwalb is investigating RealPage, a company that helps landlords set rent prices, for potential antitrust violations::Attorney General Brian Schwalb is investigating RealPage, a company that helps landlords set rent prices, for potential antitrust violations.
I would much rather have to deal with digital tags then stupid paper based ones. If they were done properly it should just be a simple “update price” and it sets to both. With paper tags you have employees that don’t update all locations so you get discrepancies.
I think the worry is that they can change the prices dynamically based on who is in the area.
“that guy looks loaded, pop the prices, quick”
But what happens when they put the items in their cart and walk to a different area before walking to the checkout? Seems like that’d be difficult to track in a brick and mortar store. Online, this absolutely does happen.
that’s gonna been with paper-based as well but yeah I can totally see it happening
With paper based, they’re paying employees to go around and alter the prices, which is too expensive and time consuming.
Digital price tags can be changed on the fly, at once, potentially even automatically.
Uh not instantly. Not storewide in a moment. Make it networked and you can change prices per customer as they walk each aisle.
And that’s my point. The digital tags are already being setup that they can adjust within under a minute. People get off work at 4-5pm, better jack up prices for the next few hours!
A bunch of people buying bread at a given time, jack up prices!
Recorded a larger number of people entering through the front turnstile. Yup, pump up those prices!
And with digital tags they can update at any time, so unless you’ve got a video camera running to price that bread was $3.99 and not $4.99 when you picked it up off the shelf…