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🚨 Target is using several forms of dynamic pricing and algorithmic pricing in their stores and through their app Prices are being set based on the data the Target App collects from your phone. Yes, this is real Investigations found the Target app charging higher prices once you are...

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McClave Marinevor 3 Tagen

This is the new money grab. You are being monitored not only you location but where you live. You come from a nice neighborhood your price goes up. You talk about something with your friends or family about a product. Your price goes up, pure corporate greed and if it is not against the law they will take full advantage.

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Gain of Xvor 3 Tagen

Same product, same shelf. No one should pay more because an app decided they can. Stop this garbage.

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Shonvor 3 Tagen

IMO>Get rid of you phones. Go back to a land line. Everything we have been sold is useless, unless you believe you need it. We either do that, or get real and admit the Constitution is for everyone, not just an address. Then all of these BS tactics go by by in a day. Truth Will Out.

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LTforRealvor 3 Tagen

Leave your phone in the car or get a Faraday bag to stow it while in the @Target store.

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DougKBakervor 3 Tagen

This is a strong case for ordering online and having it delivered to a store near you for pickup. Online prices should be straight across the board with no geofencing.

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Westerly1vor 3 Tagen

Just think about how much data Amazon has collected about each of us and precisely how we shop, for what, when and how, from their closed system. I bet they’ve done A/B testing on all of us. And OF COURSE they’re going to sell data that to third parties.

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Gary L Steinbringvor 3 Tagen

Brought to you through data centers. Do you see what data centers are all about. Tyranny over the masses

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Culture War Notesvor 3 Tagen

Put your phone in airplane mode when you go shopping, before you get in the car. Then the last ping was you at your house.

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Senseivor 3 Tagen

Target really has gone to shit the last few years ever since they became more focused on woke pandering than on affordable shopping.

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Doug Geervor 3 Tagen

People need to sue based on Deceptive Pricing/Gouging

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Judyvor 3 Tagen

exactly why I use my phone ONLY for talking or texting! I have never used my phone even to look up something on Google, I refuse. I shop locally or not at all. Use cash for most purchases. LOL, it makes a difference and no constant "ding, ding, ding" of "apps" hitting you up for sales.

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Infinitale: Chronicles | On Amazon Now!vor 3 Tagen

Buy a faraday bag. Put your phone in the bag before entering the store. The invasive readers can’t calculate prices if they can’t see you.

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Dr. Kitty Grayvor 3 Tagen

I've stopped shopping in stores unless it is Aldi or Trader Joe's. I have delivery from other places. That will keep them from dynamic pricing me out of the store, but once people stop shopping in the store, how will they increase the price?

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Eagles Have Landedvor 3 Tagen

Cannot wait to hear all the FLOCK people who now plan to stop shopping in ALL the stores that do this (which is many)!

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SovrnInsurgentvor 3 Tagen

buy local. buy small business.

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Timmie Pollock, Ph.D.vor 3 Tagen

Ban Target? You don't have to shop there...and NEVER use their app or enter your phone number!

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The Real Onevor 3 Tagen

Leave your phone at home

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Cassius Kingvor 3 Tagen

It's like cutting your heart out for most people, but you don't have to have your phone on you at all times.

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AnnThen2020vor 3 Tagen

So what if you don’t bring your phone…?

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Electronzapvor 3 Tagen

I just buy stuff on Amazon when it is a reasonable price.

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JettBlastvor 3 Tagen

Take a picture when you add it to your cart and demand that price

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Reba Wolffvor 3 Tagen

Amazon does this too

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Patrick Brianvor 3 Tagen

Another thing for Congress to act on, yet probably won't. This should be an easy ban.

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Rovor 3 Tagen

Boycott target!

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randall millard (blue checkmark)vor 3 Tagen

I will never shop at Target ever again.

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Known Associate🇺🇲⚔vor 3 Tagen

I rarely take my phone into a store and I do not use store apps.

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𝕃𝕚𝕤𝕒 ℂ𝕠𝕤𝕞𝕠𝕤vor 3 Tagen

So if I happen to shop at Target, which I don't normally do, I will turn my phone off.

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Tamarandvor 3 Tagen

Get and use a faraday bag or punch for your phone when you are in public.

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Aenon Bourne 🇺🇸vor 3 Tagen

Everywhere, everything, they want us to have the app Uber apps is three fold: 1) installed to replace public transportation simultaneously stealing tax dollars to pad their budgets, while identifying us at our every move. Enough Smart phones, enough Apps, already

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Bananas and Ricevor 3 Tagen

I'm curious though, doesn't Target post the price on the shelf? How does the scanner know what price to charge, the standard or the upscale price?

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John Waynevor 3 Tagen

Why would anyone still shop at Target, anyway? I quit them when they first tried the men in women's bathrooms thing.

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Shelley Meisnervor 3 Tagen

Yesterday I was told the stores and shopping carts will be using sensors to track your gait and biometrics. In a hurry, have a sick child and need something quick = price hike. How is this legal ?

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FerfeLaBatvor 3 Tagen

Faraday bag it

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nuclearchicvor 3 Tagen

Leave your phone off

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Yesterday I stopped some strangers in the Walmart aisle and asked if these price tags were paper or electronic. “I think they’re paper?” I told them to look closer. I explained how electronic shelf labeling is the first step towards corporations being able to change the price of items in an instant. These are the systems used for dynamic pricing - when corporations change the price for consumers based on shopping behavior and personal data. Technology isn’t the problem. Companies using technology to profit off everyday, working families is. That’s why I wrote House Bill 3959. To ban corporations from using this type of surveillance pricing manipulation. When families are shopping for the same products, on the same shelves, they should be paying the same prices. Instead of prioritizing and protecting working families over corporation profits, Republicans killed this bill in committee. But that just means as Governor I’ll be fighting against corporate greed for everyday people even harder. 🛒
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Yesterday I stopped some strangers in the Walmart aisle and asked if these price tags were paper or electronic. “I think they’re paper?” I told them to look closer. I explained how electronic shelf labeling is the first step towards corporations being able to change the price of items in an instant. These are the systems used for dynamic pricing - when corporations change the price for consumers based on shopping behavior and personal data. Technology isn’t the problem. Companies using technology to profit off everyday, working families is. That’s why I wrote House Bill 3959. To ban corporations from using this type of surveillance pricing manipulation. When families are shopping for the same products, on the same shelves, they should be paying the same prices. Instead of prioritizing and protecting working families over corporation profits, Republicans killed this bill in committee. But that just means as Governor I’ll be fighting against corporate greed for everyday people even harder. 🛒

Cyndi Munson

15,887 Aufrufe • vor 1 Monat

Senator Josh Hawley gets Spirit Airlines Vice President Matthew Klein to admit they are using algorithms to charge people different prices for the same seats “Why do you make people enter in their age and their geographic location and their gender before they can even see the cost of a seat — you're using those personal characteristics to generate the fees — You don't need somebody's gender in order to do it. You use it clearly. You're using it to generate the prices” He confirms they are using algorithms for pricing
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Senator Josh Hawley gets Spirit Airlines Vice President Matthew Klein to admit they are using algorithms to charge people different prices for the same seats “Why do you make people enter in their age and their geographic location and their gender before they can even see the cost of a seat — you're using those personal characteristics to generate the fees — You don't need somebody's gender in order to do it. You use it clearly. You're using it to generate the prices” He confirms they are using algorithms for pricing

Wall Street Apes

239,186 Aufrufe • vor 6 Monaten

FTC documents show Pepsi is price fixing The FTC looked at internal emails with Pepsi and Walmart, they found they act as one company and Pepsi even takes action against grocery stores and other chains like Target if they price Pepsi as cheaply as Walmart does “The FTC looked at a bunch of internal Pepsi emails and communications. The executives at Pepsi would talk about Walmart's prices as our prices. As if this is, this is all one big company — Big rivals like Target, small mom and pop shops, regional chains, everywhere it could keep an eye on it, it did. And where it found that Pepsi prices in those other stores were getting low enough to really compete with Walmart, with all of the discounts and all of the other things that it was giving Walmart, it took action against those other stores. What does that look like? It reduced their deals, it reduced the discounts they were giving these other retailers. It even increased their wholesale prices, started to kind of ratchet it up more and more every year so that the price of Pepsi products at every other store that wasn't a Walmart were artificially higher for the consumer than they would have been if there was actual competition between Walmart and these stores. These stores wanted to push the prices down, but Pepsi simply wouldn't let them by charging them more” This is price fixing and illegal
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FTC documents show Pepsi is price fixing The FTC looked at internal emails with Pepsi and Walmart, they found they act as one company and Pepsi even takes action against grocery stores and other chains like Target if they price Pepsi as cheaply as Walmart does “The FTC looked at a bunch of internal Pepsi emails and communications. The executives at Pepsi would talk about Walmart's prices as our prices. As if this is, this is all one big company — Big rivals like Target, small mom and pop shops, regional chains, everywhere it could keep an eye on it, it did. And where it found that Pepsi prices in those other stores were getting low enough to really compete with Walmart, with all of the discounts and all of the other things that it was giving Walmart, it took action against those other stores. What does that look like? It reduced their deals, it reduced the discounts they were giving these other retailers. It even increased their wholesale prices, started to kind of ratchet it up more and more every year so that the price of Pepsi products at every other store that wasn't a Walmart were artificially higher for the consumer than they would have been if there was actual competition between Walmart and these stores. These stores wanted to push the prices down, but Pepsi simply wouldn't let them by charging them more” This is price fixing and illegal

Wall Street Apes

98,740 Aufrufe • vor 9 Monaten

This woman shares her experience with Walmart’s digital price tags and how they appear to be using something called dynamic pricing. Dynamic pricing is when companies adjust prices in real time based on demand or other factors. She found a pair of shoes marked down to just $3 on clearance. When she scanned the tag in the shoe aisle, it showed $3. But by the time she reached the register, the same shoes scanned for nearly $19. When she went back with a manager to check, the price seemed to change depending on where she was standing in the store. It’s raising some questions about how transparent this kind of pricing really is — especially for people trying to stick to a budget. Have you ever had a price change on you while shopping, either in-store or online?
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This woman shares her experience with Walmart’s digital price tags and how they appear to be using something called dynamic pricing. Dynamic pricing is when companies adjust prices in real time based on demand or other factors. She found a pair of shoes marked down to just $3 on clearance. When she scanned the tag in the shoe aisle, it showed $3. But by the time she reached the register, the same shoes scanned for nearly $19. When she went back with a manager to check, the price seemed to change depending on where she was standing in the store. It’s raising some questions about how transparent this kind of pricing really is — especially for people trying to stick to a budget. Have you ever had a price change on you while shopping, either in-store or online?

End3of6Days9 (Helen) 🇺🇸

48,734 Aufrufe • vor 4 Monaten

Some things are just meant to be like this vinyl from Target! 🖤 The exclusive #ISaidILoveYouFirst vinyl is available now! It features a limited edition color vinyl, alternative artwork and poster. Grab the vinyl in stores or order through same-day delivery from the Target app or website! 🎶
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Some things are just meant to be like this vinyl from Target! 🖤 The exclusive #ISaidILoveYouFirst vinyl is available now! It features a limited edition color vinyl, alternative artwork and poster. Grab the vinyl in stores or order through same-day delivery from the Target app or website! 🎶

Official Selenators

30,657 Aufrufe • vor 1 Jahr

Senator Ruben Gallego has introduced a bill to ban surveillance pricing across the country. As corporations use algorithms and data about your behavior to set prices at the highest point you're willing to pay, a ban like this is more important than ever.
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Senator Ruben Gallego has introduced a bill to ban surveillance pricing across the country. As corporations use algorithms and data about your behavior to set prices at the highest point you're willing to pay, a ban like this is more important than ever.

More Perfect Union

28,297 Aufrufe • vor 9 Monaten

You searched for a breakfast recipe. Now the eggs in your online cart cost more. That's surveillance pricing – companies using your personal data to charge you more for the same groceries. I signed legislation to put a stop it to it in New Jersey – giving shoppers the strongest protections in the nation against this practice and helping families keep more money in their pockets.
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You searched for a breakfast recipe. Now the eggs in your online cart cost more. That's surveillance pricing – companies using your personal data to charge you more for the same groceries. I signed legislation to put a stop it to it in New Jersey – giving shoppers the strongest protections in the nation against this practice and helping families keep more money in their pockets.

Governor Mikie Sherrill

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