In theory, this can also happen if prices are changed during the day - perhaps according to the time of the day, and that change just happens between you putting the article into your chart. Unless every customer has a device that tracks the price of each item until he/she pays, such mismatches (or “race conditions”, that’s the technical name in software development) will be difficult to avoid.
But to me, also something weird happened. I was watching a corner with small kitchen stuff (things like knives, cooking cutlery), and there was a TV screen with advertising in it. I took one of these items (out of perhaps 100 items) into my hand and it started to play advertising about that item. Freaked me out.
I considered that prices had been changed and the price tags not updated yet. But all 3 items the first time. And then all the other different items the second time?
So the price was wrong on literally everything I bought except the deli items.
And it was consistently off. Everything was 50 cents or 1 dollar cheaper.
Technically 49 cents and 99 cents.
For instance I grabbed some cheap pot pies. 1.49. They rang up 1.00.
I bought a pack of popcorn 4.99. It rang up 4.00.
I think to fully test this I could buy the exact same items. Go through self checkout.
Do it again and go through the cashier and pay in cash.
In theory, this can also happen if prices are changed during the day - perhaps according to the time of the day, and that change just happens between you putting the article into your chart. Unless every customer has a device that tracks the price of each item until he/she pays, such mismatches (or “race conditions”, that’s the technical name in software development) will be difficult to avoid.
But to me, also something weird happened. I was watching a corner with small kitchen stuff (things like knives, cooking cutlery), and there was a TV screen with advertising in it. I took one of these items (out of perhaps 100 items) into my hand and it started to play advertising about that item. Freaked me out.
Shoulda screamed, dropped / thrown the item and run out of the store.
Teach them being creepy gets them nothing
Only so many coincidences before it’s obvious its orchestrated in some form.
With the lax laws on privacy and data collection, they could be doing almost anything.
I considered that prices had been changed and the price tags not updated yet. But all 3 items the first time. And then all the other different items the second time?
So the price was wrong on literally everything I bought except the deli items.
And it was consistently off. Everything was 50 cents or 1 dollar cheaper.
Technically 49 cents and 99 cents.
For instance I grabbed some cheap pot pies. 1.49. They rang up 1.00.
I bought a pack of popcorn 4.99. It rang up 4.00.
I think to fully test this I could buy the exact same items. Go through self checkout.
Do it again and go through the cashier and pay in cash.