Kroger, America’s biggest supermarket chain, is being investigated over its use of electronic price labels on store shelves nationwide. US Senators Elizabeth Warren and Bob Casey announced they were looking into the practice to see if the chain was engaging in surge pricing. So-called ‘dynamic pricing’ is common in other industries, such as flights, hotels and car-sharing services like Uber . It sees customers paying more or less depending on demand
There are multiple posts on lemmy about the stores switching to digital tags, some of which claim they will “save the customer money”, obviously an outright lie as the point is to make more money for the store.
Ex: https://lemmy.world/post/16718848 , https://lemmy.world/post/17161297
TIL Kroger is the biggest supermarket chain in the US. I thought it would be Walmart.
I think most Walmarts don’t really sell groceries. Last time I lived near one, it didn’t have any produce, which is really the whole point of a grocery store.
Didn’t Kroger just buy another chain, though? That might have been what made them the biggest.
every Walmart I’ve been to has a big grocery section