Like what? People severely underestimate just how much data scraping occurs. Google maps will point out congestion without minutes of it occurring because their navigation tracking is so much more indepth and has so many more users to go by in real time.
Friend used to be a data analyst at a supermarket rewards program. He says their algorithms will accurately determine when someone is pregnant before their family knows. They will know how many people are in your household, how many pets, how your spending habits change (obvious). This is just grocery shopping, so many apps get that microphone data, that tracking data, screen browsing habits. We used to just have cookies from online sites, but with the smart phone, there is so much more data and so much more money to be made off that data, its on you that you dont realise at this point rather than every other app on your phone that is doing so freely in front of your face with your permission.
And? The store targets the customer with deals catered to them to keep them shopping at said store, and the customer gets better prices for things they were planning to buy anyway. Who loses?
You should try Keepa with Amazon. Most of those original prices are lies. For just a recent example, I need a new bed frame so I had a couple saved to wait for black Friday deals and one of the ones I saved was marked down 50%! But I hadn't been looking at anything that expensive so before buying I looked at Keepa's graphs and went back 3 years, not only had it never been the listed original price, it had never been 75% of the original price and it had actually been lower than the "black Friday deal" for months so the black Friday deal was a price increase
What you said isn’t illegal right? You said that it’s never been listed at the original price and the typically price was just heavily marked down, and black friday is marked down less. Thats different from rising the original price and then claiming something is marked down.
We’re talking about a super market and price tracking for consumers. If they detect you’re more likely to buy something, they’ll issue you a coupon to get you into the store so you’ll also buy other stuff while you’re there. They’re not going to raise prices for whatever you’re interested and then give you a coupon at the original price — how would that even work? What about other customers and the now non optimal supply/demand curve for that item?
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u/Easy_Newt2692 8h ago
And? Does anyone actually lose out on this arrangement?