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Erica C. Barnett

A ban on surveillance pricing—using people's private data to set prices—is already setting off the big retail and grocery companies, which bought Seattle Times banner ads and are sending mass texts to convince consumers it's in our best interest to let companies mine our data to decide what we pay.

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Pyperkub

Capitalism depends upon competition and price transparency. This is not Capitalism but monopoly.

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Tes the Raccoon

Wait until you learn what the inevitable outcome of competition is.

Soul Filing Cabinets

Add banning the collection, analyzing; and installation of biometrics technologies to the heap of things to.ban.

Jessie

Oh THAT’S who sent me a vague lobbying text to me this morning complaining about the mayor. I knew it smelled like corporate bullshit

dirkelee

🤬...Makes me wonder how much information there is available out there about me???

zferrell

We knew this kind of s*** was coming.

Aster Vérité

Save on groceries, EAT THE RICH!

brightshadow (regular)

"you don't understand! we raise the prices for everyone and then we give discounts to people who can't afford our new higher prices! that's a discount, not an upcharge! it's good actually!"

gabrielgambino

🚩 #Seattle

Monica V

I hate this. My local Fred Meyer installed digital tags so o won’t shop there anymore.

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Silverrain64

Oh no, seriously? I've been "visiting" them by Instacart for the last little while, so I didn't know. I s'pose there's still Costco, but sometimes you don't need ten pounds of bananas at a time, you know?

Itsbeenneal

The mayor is coming for your Safeway Points!

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Itsbeenneal
Mark VDH

The logic they use must be first rate. Let gouge you, you deserve it. 🤮🙄😵‍💫💰🖕

Science Be 🏳️‍🌈

Surveillance pricing takes price gouging customers to a whole new level of evil. Of course corporate oligarchs don't want us to fight for consumer protections from their latest wealth extraction scheme.

Frédéric Dubut

To some extent, it's reassuring that the industry can't come up with a better argument than "you'll lose your coupons".

Erica C. Barnett

I can't get the ad to come up for me (after disabling my ad blocker, all I'm seeing are ads for tech firms with names like "Databilify" and a company trying to sell "award-winning luxury diapers" but here's a screenshot I received:

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DenimGlasses

I mainly shop at winco, which uses physical tags still. They dont have a typical sale, things are just priced every week. They will change frequently, but its the same price for everyone.

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Erica C. Barnett

Surveillance pricing means different people are charged different prices for the same thing based on how much a company can think it can get from a specific person in a specific situation. epic.org/issues/consu...

Surveillance PricingBusinesses are increasingly engaging in surveillance pricing—using troves of personal data to set individualized prices. As a result, people are paying different amounts for the same exact product, ju...epic.org
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Kelly Davis

Got this earlier today.

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jmmelica

I just got text spam about this. I didn't know what it was referencing. Thanks for the information.

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Kristina of ⭐️⭐️

I got a text from that group! I deleted it and reported it as spam.

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Pen & Ink

You know, maybe it’s time to create new grocery store loyalty cards with fresh random data

BestBets

I also got a text this morning.

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Sasha

Same! I deleted it and reported it as junk lol

kelseygee

I already got a deranged text about this this morning. They're so scared!

deeners

Oh that’s why I got a text about the mayor trying to take away our precious grocery store rewards

jrriver

Fuck these capitalist pigs!

rabbit fripp 🐇

Safeway does this on their app and it’s insane how often the prices change

Egg Farmer

Who is the swing voter who sees a banner ad and is like, “these are my principles now…”

Erin

Ohhhh! I got the text message and couldn’t figure out what they were even talking about, but also decided that they were probably on the wrong side of the issue 😅

Erin

Maybe they could try giving more value for the money, instead of preying on us.

Gareth Newnham

Time to game the algorithm.

DFW Sam

Nope.

MidwestExCentrist

Don't stop there, make a ban on surveillance

FishyAngel

Kroger said the main attraction to merging with Albertsons would be having the largest pool of consumer data in the country.

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🧿kika🧿

😬😬😬

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Fat Man in a Skirt

Fun fact: Kroger and Schnucks grocery do not compete in the Midwest. If your town has one, the other won't open a location. The only exciting is Ruler, which is Kroger's Aldi competitor. I'm not accusing them of collusion. But, let's be honest here.

bobloblaw

Ordering my Alex Jones mask so I can get the maximum discount when I shop at H-E-B

Manipulated urbanit [sic]

Surely you aren't implying the Northwest Retail Grocery Association has anything in mind but the budgets of hardworking Seattleites?

Spiral Star Dancer

The greed is astonishing

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RadiantHostility (he/him)

The greed is normal and forms the basic underlying justificatipn for Capital and for all of Western Society.

Beatrice Werner

Avi Lewis wants this gone in Canada silence from Carney as always

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AD

Hes a banker of course hes gonna be silent, none of his damn decisions should be a surprise to any Canadian

Ash

Right in the wood chipper.

Arkh ΘΔ

Does this mean that Jeff Bezos has to pay 3.1 million dollars for a carton of eggs? It is it just to statistically calculate the exact PSI to squeeze to get the blood out of the stone?