I wouldn’t put it past them to eventually do surge pricing, but changing prices is pretty easy without these(and knowing what to surge is easy, that is basically the whole christmas season, halloween season, thanksgiving, summer… you see my point). A big part of how these are used is for online shopping and the “uber drivers of shopping” as these have flashing lights that they can basically follow. I suspect it will probably used (along with other automation and restructuring) as an excuse have less employees and basically turn it into a gig job while any theoretically slightly easier surge pricing is realistically not a major factor.
I think the distinction is going to be the frequency with which they can change prices. They can change dozens of times throughout the day or even based on who is walking past them since they’re using facial recognition to track everyone in their stores anyway.
I wouldn’t put it past them to eventually do surge pricing, but changing prices is pretty easy without these(and knowing what to surge is easy, that is basically the whole christmas season, halloween season, thanksgiving, summer… you see my point). A big part of how these are used is for online shopping and the “uber drivers of shopping” as these have flashing lights that they can basically follow. I suspect it will probably used (along with other automation and restructuring) as an excuse have less employees and basically turn it into a gig job while any theoretically slightly easier surge pricing is realistically not a major factor.
I think the distinction is going to be the frequency with which they can change prices. They can change dozens of times throughout the day or even based on who is walking past them since they’re using facial recognition to track everyone in their stores anyway.