Verbot der algorithmischen Preisgestaltung, NDP drängt Carney: „Geradezu gruselig“
Ban algorithmic pricing, NDP urges Carney: ‘Downright creepy’
Verbot der algorithmischen Preisgestaltung, NDP drängt Carney: „Geradezu gruselig“
Ban algorithmic pricing, NDP urges Carney: ‘Downright creepy’
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Dynamic pricing should be illegal everywhere.
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Bu…bu…but the poor corporations not being able to make billions!
Airlines have been fleecing customers for a long time with this approach. I’d love to see Carney take this on.
We’ve had product pricing pretty much figured out for a long while now as a species. All of the time/yield-based situations you’re referring to already exist, from gas pumps to market price for fish.
I think daily changes will only hurt the businesses that adopt them, which is why the ones that DO adopt them are too big to really be rejected, like Amazon. Prices shift HOURLY on Amazon, but it’s become part of the experience and is highly opaque. People rarely go back and double-check an Amazon price; they either buy it then or move on.
The obvious reaction should be **regulating Amazon and other digital storefronts.** Instead, we’re just watching Canada’s already limited market of grocery chains (we have 3 or 4 companies running all food in my country) adopt those same practices on an equally captured market with no real recourse or penalty.
The fact that digital price tags in a physical store are shifting prices in real time should be deeply illegal. I’m glad that the NDP are making this a talking point, because it’s something everyone agrees on *and* a stance that neither the Conservative or the Liberals are holding up for themselves.
Would this apply to gas prices? I can’t think of anything else that changes prices 3+ times a day.
Sure it’s based on the price of oil, but so it motor oil, and bread is based on the price of wheat, but we don’t see those things fluctuate many times a day.
Didn’t epic games do this recently with Fortnite because they said something like “we’re running out of money”
I wouldn’t be surprised if they start reading your cell phone bluetooth ID or phone IMEI and do rolling price changes as you walk through the store.
Sure, that sounds ridiculous in a brick and mortar store, but that’s what they do online, using surveillance of you and your region’s purchase and income history to adjust prices as you browse their online stores.
How about dynamic wages for companies that use dynamic pricing? Overtime? Sure, that’ll be $500/hr.
This of what a non issue it would be to institute this, as well as isolate any information on competitor pricing if Canada were to bring in „for the kids“ ID laws.
Companies could price fix an individual and they would never know the difference.
Why do people hate this? It makes perfect sense for both consumer and merchant.
It would reduce lines at busy times and let businesses sell stuff for less at less busy times.
As a consumer you would be allowed to decide if you value your time or the lower price more.
I wonder if the NDP could even offer a concrete definition of algorithmic pricing that doesn’t cripple a market’s ability to use math and computers to make sound business decisions.
So is our wages gonna go up in real time?
It’s crazy that people have a problem with this. Where were all these naysayers 10+ years ago?! Dynamic pricing is used everywhere and has been openly embraced by mostly everyone. Want to visit a website? Allow this cookie. Want cheaper car insurance? Use this telematics device. If you collect Tims / McDonalds points you can get a free coffee. 99% of people don’t care about the information they give out as long as they get something for it, don’t go complaining about it now.
How does this work in practice? Time based prices could change between when you picked an item up off the shelf and get to the checkout.
Per user prices seem even worse. The store would have to track every step you make and update the shelf price as you walk past. What happens if multiple people are buying, e.g. milk? Whose price do they display? How does a customer react to a price going up as they reach for a product?
I can understand it working online, or other places where product selection and payment are tightly coupled (air fares, car purchasing), but for something like groceries, it seems like a nightmare to implement.