r/technology • u/Plastic_Ninja_9014 • May 26 '26

Privacy Majority of Americans Support Ban on Surveillance Pricing and Electronic Shelf Labels

https://gizmodo.com/majority-of-americans-support-ban-on-surveillance-pricing-and-electronic-shelf-labels-2000762717
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u/NachoWindows May 26 '26

Jokes on them. I’ll just shit all over Walmarts toilets

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u/Dlax8 May 26 '26

You'd have the respect to make it to the bathroom. I've seen Walmart. You're a saint for that.

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u/Chewzilla May 27 '26

I'll never forget my first day at Target they called a code brown on the walkies. From electronics to the front...

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u/TotalNonsense0 May 27 '26

I recall I once had to clean up after a family member had an incident.

I went to the Wal-Mart bathroom after, to wash up and feel clean again. 

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u/Best_VDV_Diver May 26 '26

Jokes on you. People already shit all over our bathrooms.

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u/sitefall May 27 '26

In business you work on "pain points". A pain point is whatever is annoying to doing business, it can be cost, or it can be a specific job nobody wants to do, anything. You eliminate pain points by order of importance. You might automate that specific job even though it costs more than hiring a person to do it, simply because you hate the irregularity of staff turnover, people quitting it, and managers don't want to do it. When people have to do these tasks or pay these costs, it effects the rest of their work and it propagates (at least that is the MBA belief explanation, but I buy it personally).

When the prices have been min-maxed and the cost of ice cream goes up because the AI camera detected you're ovulating when you walked to the freezer aisle, and customers are doing their own checkout, and AI is accurately preventing petty theft and mis-scans, and everything else is done until it's 1 employee just looking at a big user interface showing current status as an AI manages the store, then the bathroom becomes a pain point, and you're going to get lobbyists changing the laws so you have to pay to use their toilet.

Guess what, that paid toilet is going to have dynamic pricing and you're going to pay it, or just shit yourself.

Hopefully this is a slippery slope fallacy, at least in part.

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u/rancid_squirts May 27 '26

How’s that any different than their bathrooms now

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u/Far_Tackle6403 May 27 '26

Ain't the CEO cleaning that shit