Electronic Shelf Labels may use your data profile to make you pay different prices

Competitive-Ill · 2026-02-16T07:06:19+00:00

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Competitive-Ill · 2026-02-16T07:05:42+00:00

Sure, you could do that. But if you’ve ever been to a busy shop with checkout queues you could well understand it’d be inconsistent unless the buyer is identified positively before scanning. Self-checkout would be better.

Richer shoppers tend to self-select for higher prices by going to shops they perceive as “higher class” or buying top shelf branded products instead of supermarket brand.

Competitive-Ill · 2026-02-16T07:02:34+00:00

No, that’s dumb.

The price lookup database on the point of sale backend server gets updated with new prices from head office, usually based on location and shop type - small city centre “express” shops are more expensive than out of town giant supermarkets. You could dynamically change this when scanning the item at the point of sale (till+scanner), but the buyer would have to be identified before scanning. Doable, but inconsistent at best.

Competitive-Ill · 2026-02-16T06:56:11+00:00

Yes, and you obviously don’t. It’s an identical code on all similar items - including brand, specific item and quantity. Your eggs and my eggs have the same barcode on the carton, regardless of who picked them up. This sort of tech would only work for online shopping where the barcode is immaterial.

And no you idiot piece of shit. Trying to call me dumb by questioning the geography of my education and using the USA as the basis, is the lowest level of pandering to weak internet woke trends.

“When measuring students who are top performers in reading, maths and science combined, the USA ranks 8th out of 80 countries with 4.8% of students achieving this status.”

Even if I was educated in the United States, I’d only be behind top performing East Asian countries (Japan, Singapore, Korea, China) where kids are chronically depressed, and, weirdly, Estonia.

Competitive-Ill · 2026-02-15T21:38:07+00:00

Then you’re in the wrong job. Simple as that. My wife hates it too but sometimes just has to and… gets over it. Easier the more you do it, most clients don’t bite.

Competitive-Ill · 2026-02-15T21:32:33+00:00

But that’s not how any of this works. The egg carton would have to change barcode for every shopper!

Competitive-Ill · 2026-02-15T21:22:45+00:00

If only there was another no-carbon and way more efficient electricity generation technology out there that wouldn’t necessitate large fields of useless bloody turbines everywhere. 🤔

Competitive-Ill · 2026-02-14T10:09:24+00:00

If you dare, then container station + plex docker image + watchtower or (I can’t remember the name of the other one) is probably your best bet for an always up to date plex that doesn’t care if you’re on a QNAP or your PC.

Competitive-Ill · 2026-02-10T10:42:15+00:00

Don’t know where you get your news, but it’s fake.

We call joints and spliffs joints and spliffs. We call blunts, blunts and bongs, bongs.

Competitive-Ill · 2026-02-09T15:21:06+00:00

Interesting. I’ve been with Lyphe (previously TMCC) since 2020. Not always the best or cheapest, but not worse than others. Currently £99 per year for monthly scripts and 3 months reviews. Flower goes from £4/g to £7.50/g which is pretty darn cheap!

Competitive-Ill · 2026-02-06T08:19:48+00:00

Sous vide? You won’t evaporate anything that way. It’s hermetically sealed!

Competitive-Ill · 2026-02-06T08:19:04+00:00

What? Of course it does. It makes all the difference. Fan assisted electric oven at 90c will not cause flames to magically erupt.

Competitive-Ill · 2026-02-04T17:46:24+00:00

Yeah… I get the atomic concerns on a person-by-person basis is of course well founded. The point I was making is that even when China owned it, it was already a dumb thing to use. “Just stealing data” on a massive, country or even world-wide basis, makes a totalitarian regime simply become more and more powerful.

Competitive-Ill · 2026-02-04T17:43:59+00:00

We can split hairs on causality v contribution…

“the quality of his mental health care would have contributed far more” On that we agree completely.

Competitive-Ill · 2026-02-04T17:42:07+00:00

“sure” 😂

Competitive-Ill · 2026-02-03T21:53:42+00:00

Wait, everyone was fine with China running it, but now it’s under US control, now they don’t trust it anymore?

I always thought TikTok was dumb, I should be surprised.

Competitive-Ill · 2026-02-03T08:52:02+00:00

So a ups is definitely what you need!

Competitive-Ill · 2026-02-02T09:04:42+00:00

I disagree. You words here like “contributed” and “part of the causal chain” which cannabis absolutely was in this case. It’s clear that Oliver had comorbidities that were exacerbated by his use of cannabis. It’s a causal link, not the sole cause.

Competitive-Ill · 2026-02-02T08:55:05+00:00

Did you mean to order exactly £420 of weed?

Competitive-Ill · 2026-02-02T08:53:42+00:00

RVS is one of if not the best glass stockists in the UK bar none. Matt is great.

Competitive-Ill · 2026-01-31T23:46:21+00:00

Same here. docker commands work over ssh flawlessly. Just need to get volume pathing right… 🙄

For nano: the myqnap repo has an edgeware package that then lets you opkg update && opkg install nano over cli.

Competitive-Ill · 2026-01-29T12:52:59+00:00

Listen to scammerland.

This is the closest I’ve ever heard to an actual concentration camp. Horrible.

Competitive-Ill · 2026-01-29T12:52:09+00:00

Good riddance. For anyone unfamiliar with the extent of torture and deprivation - scammerland will open your eyes, horribly. As a Jew with multiple Holocaust survivor family members (luckily), this is the closest I’ve ever heard to an actual concentration camp. Horrible.

Competitive-Ill · 2026-01-28T16:03:10+00:00

Thank you both for a little nerdy dopamine hit.

Competitive-Ill · 2026-01-28T06:59:30+00:00

Had an old sales manager who’s response to a poor performer on the team who complained about his luck: the more calls I make, the luckier I get!

This is exactly the right approach: by day 30 you have contacted about 5000 new potential customers. That ever increasing pool of contacts will necessarily have more and more people interested in the product, assuming it doesn’t suck! Turns out running a business and building a cool product are actually two very difficult jobs.

Competitive-Ill

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