Comment Re:Gas stations do it (Score 1) 192
With a gas station the price is set when you pul/push the handle/button on the pump, you are not filling up and in the middle the price changes.
With grocery stores I can be in there for a period of time, if you up or lower, no one will care about the lower the price, after I have placed the item in a cart then you have a legal issue.
So the problem becomes how do you make sure you have not raised the price on products for that person who is still shopping. Stores use to do it while closed to the public. Hard to do that with dynamic pricing or when open 24 hours.
So most stores do a thing where if the price goes down they lower at the register then start changing prices on item. If going up you change on the items then wait an hour or two and raise at the register. There goes that dynamic pricing. However just regular prices change are made really easy with those digital price tags.
With grocery stores I can be in there for a period of time, if you up or lower, no one will care about the lower the price, after I have placed the item in a cart then you have a legal issue.
So the problem becomes how do you make sure you have not raised the price on products for that person who is still shopping. Stores use to do it while closed to the public. Hard to do that with dynamic pricing or when open 24 hours.
So most stores do a thing where if the price goes down they lower at the register then start changing prices on item. If going up you change on the items then wait an hour or two and raise at the register. There goes that dynamic pricing. However just regular prices change are made really easy with those digital price tags.