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[viss@mastodon.social]

friends dont let friends shop at walmart

Walmart Wins Patents To Give Algorithms More Sway Over Prices - Slashdot

Walmart has secured patents for systems that use machine learning to forecast demand and automate pricing decisions, "pushing the U.S. retail behemoth into a debate over the use of algorithms to adjust product costs," reports the Financial Times. From the report: In January Walmart obtained a U.S. ...

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[davemwilburn@infosec.exchange]

@Viss

One of the more annoying aspects of our dystopia is how annoying it is to be an ethical consumer. It's not like Target or Amazon are any better, and what's left of our small businesses are often processed through Amazon anyway.

I know, I know, the military occupation of our cities, ethnic cleansing, rampant discrimination, concentration camps, illegal wars of conquest, erosion of civil liberties, and corrupt authoritarianism are so somewhat bigger problems in the grand scheme of things.

But it'd still be nice if we could just, like, buy shit without having to sweat over which oligarch we were funding or which everyday shopping experience was the most dehumanizing.

[cityhallin@infosec.exchange]

@Viss I'm not liking any of this timeline's endings.

[catscatscats@mastodon.social]

@Viss Us, soon: https://www.btboces.org/Downloads/7_There%20Will%20Come%20Soft%20Rains%20by%20Ray%20Bradbury.pdf

[viss@mastodon.social]

@cityhallin oh man the fuckin marauders. i take it you mean the ones from doom? out custom in house dns bruteforcer is called marauder, haha

[zombie042@infosec.exchange]

@Viss So this is why Walmart had my friend spending all that time installing digital price shelving at Walmart.

I can already see it now, facial recognition cams see a shopper that buys specific things all the time enter the store, prices on those things goes up until they check out. Otherwise prices lower so others who don't buy those things often will try them. 🤬

[viss@mastodon.social]

@zombie042 holy shit theyre doing facial recognition in-store to set pricing?

[zombie042@infosec.exchange]

@Viss Not yet that I know of, just looking at the patent and the tech in the stores it is a logical next step to maximize profits. If they have no soul and all the tech, why wouldn't they?

[viss@mastodon.social]

@catscatscats my house is kiiiinda like that right now, though i dont get the wallace and grommit style autobreakfast

[viss@mastodon.social]

@zombie042 theyre already doing it with btle

[spartan_1986@infosec.exchange]

@Viss Hi. My name is Mark and I've been Walmart free this entire century.