we did it! we lowered prices for everyone!
>>539942961>Self-checkout...and niggers getting 100% discount every time.
>>539942961The 10% discount used to be just stealing something. Now they are so touchy about weights they always end up bringing a person over for bigger orders
>>539943023Prove it. The AI powered cameras on these things have made it FAR harder to steal compared to even just 3 years ago. Go on YouTube and you can watch thousands and thousands of videos of them trying to steal, getting cause and arrested.
>>539943035The first time I went into one of your K-Mart stores a few years ago I was unbelievably shocked and honestly quite confused (couldn't figure out where to go to pay for things, I kept looking at the store exits lol) There were no checkouts, no staff serving anyone (only stocking shelves), not even security at the doors, just an area in the middle of the store where you could use self-checkouts and people just wandered in, bought what they needed and left.There's nothing like that back in Canada at all.
>>539943138I think he's just implying that the niggers just grab things and leave the store, they don't pay for anything or even attempt to.
>>539942961They already passed laws that introduce a 100% discount on items less than $1k
>>539942961>Dems just casually ignore that grocery stores run on 1-3% profit margins. Legit about to be escape from new york at this rate.
>>539943023This guy gets it
>>539943370couldnt you as a store owner set the price of everything to be 10x what it actaully is, but then have a "Special discount" that basically everyone gets access to by just like reading some stupid card on the counter. That way you can basically hit every thing stolen as a crime that would warrent an arrest.
>>539943380the point is grocery niggers are eliminating jobs and the constant attempt to automate everything without providing ways for people to make money is fucking everything insociety up.
Ahhh, the 20%markup and 10% discount Jew.
>>539943473kek, might be worth a try. but they'd accuse the owner of price gouging and if they didn't already have a law they could hit them with they'd use it as an excuse to pass one.
>>539943590It's just one big race to the bottom, everyone is looking to maximise profits whilst giving zero thought to what happens to their profits when consumers no longer have jobs and thus can't consume.
>>539942961>raises all prices in the store by 20% to compensatelol, lmao even
>>539942961Sounds like they just made prices 10% higher for the regular checkout while keeping prices the same for self checkouts. The next step is to remove the self checkouts.
>>539943590>>539943719>grocery store checkout clerks are the backbone of the economy
>>539943473Pretty sure a store tried this in California when theft below a thousand was legal. Idk how that turned out>>539943590The Democrats are finally right on something. If the store is saving money on not having a checker, those savings should be passed on to the customer who's doing the work instead.
>>539943138Niggers and Spics don’t even bother with the self checkout, they just walk out the door with whatever they want. Self checkout only catches people who are trying to do the right thing but fuck up or complete fucking retards.
>>539942961This is based. Republicans would never do anything on behalf of their constituents.
>raises all prices by 10% in your pathenjoy shopping in jersey
>>539943905>not sure how that turned outiirc they used advertising law to make him stop, something about "dishonest pricing" or wtfever.
>>539943138>The AI powered camerasAI powered cameras mistake children for adults if they just grin really hard.
>>539943138Buddy facial recognition can only categorize a nigger as "Gorilla", it doesn't work on them.
>no source or linkGreat job faggot OP.
>>539943307>K-Mart>a few years agoI don't think it was just a "few", the word you are looking for is "many"
>>539945124Australia still has Kmart.
>>539942961>prices to increase by 15% to pay for 10% "discount" at checkout.
>>539945153I was wondering how long it would take for someone to figure it out.LIke the tariffs, prices just went up, and then when the tariff refunds went out they went to businesses, not customers. So tariffs made every jew money twice over, double dipping in the taxpayers wallet.
>>539942961>Store proceeds to jack up all item costs in the store by 10%, and treats non self checkout like a premium featureRIP cashiers
>>539943888grocery stores aren't like the mcdonald's that you worked at, they're packed with customers from 2pm to 9pm and a poorly flowing front end can completely fuck the whole store up and lead to walk-outs and shoplifting.
>>539945358Oh to be so clueless and naive.https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/apr/20/amazon-sellers-price-raises-california
>>539945622me>prices will just got upyou>no anon, you're clueless and naive prices will actually just go upWhat's your malfunction, boy?
>>539943138>t. thieving nigger
>>539942961Still not doing it, scan my items wagey
>>539942961fun fact: someones gonna have to recompense for that, there are no free rides—
>>539946797>we solved the budget crisis>how? we stopped paying our bills>how the fuck did nobody think of this before, i'm a fucking geniuslmaolol
>>539942961This is peak centrism:>legalize shoplifting of $100 worth of items or less>introduce 10% reduction on cost of groceries when you use self checkout to avoid shopliftingThe cure for the ails of capitalism. Far right and far left btfo.
>>539942961>raise prices by 50%>25% "discount"Riiight...
>>539946797>operation: be a nigger
>>539942961They should add mandatory 20% tips for all cashiers. Just to make boomers seethe
>>539942961Hell yeah, you go girl. Now if tamika could figure out how to charge big data if they use your information in their globohomo schemes Or maybe come up with a digital trespassing law. If data trespassers where charged for breaking and entering into digital devices
>>539942961>Grocery stores accept >Raise prices by 10% across the board>Offer a discounted rate for people willing to queue up in the long lines and use the machine >Grocery store gets to reduce overhead because now even less people want to use the cashiers >Cashier's are nice but it's a 10% higher bill, fuck that. >Soon cashiers gone completely >Now everyone has to fuck around with the shitty self check out. >Those employed cashiers are now unemployed>The service is worse >The store didn't sacrifice a fucking thing >And because the notion came from some moronic politician, people see it as a good thing
>>539943905>The Democrats are finally right on something. If the store is saving money on not having a checker, those savings should be passed on to the customer who's doing the work instead.No. The business's responsibly is to maximize profits. Higher profitability will induce supply and prices will fall according to supply and demand. You should never just pass on savings to the consumer.
>>539943307The Bay was like that, except it was actual people in the middle. No one at the exits. You walked in, grabbed your stuff, went to the middle of the store with customer service, then walked out a door. There were 4 exits, no security.
>miggers are upset about more affordable groceries because uhhh ummmthey aren't beating the goycattle allegations
>>539942961I have never used self checkout and not had an employee have to come over and fix something or approve it.
>>539943023> whit people pay > white people pay taxes> white people pay section 8> white people pay for black babiesIs there any benefit for white people in society anymore when the system robs from them and gives it to blacks
>>539947894are you 60
>>539942961And what's stopping the grocery stores from jacking up their prices 10% after this passses?
>>539947870>commie doesn't understand basic economics: the postthe point is that the 10% discount has to come from somewhere, and it won't be the store's razor thin profit margins desuremind me again, why do 'food deserts' exist?
>>539947760Socialism and centrally steered market saved the day again!
>>539943380sure they do.
>>539942961supermarkets raise all prices for everyone by 15%, stop all cashiers and only allow self checkout. or keep 1 useless cashier and charge whatever crazy mount so the can 'discount' the self check 50% 80% whatever magic numbers the jews want.
>>539948005remind me. where were you when trump increased prices by 10%? you prob didn't stop to ask yourself then where the money was going to come from kek. (You) goycattle should stay quiet and let the big boys talk
>>539943473That'd definitely be illegal. Railroads in the 1880s would enter into price fixing agreements with their competitors and then undercut their competitors by offering discounts like that, so the government made those sorts of discounts illegal so the railroad pools could crank up their prices.
>>539942961why not when the entire point of these was to reduce labor costs? why should we pay the same amount for the shit when we have to scan and bag them?
>>539943380lmao you think the owner of a grocery store is living like he's making 50k?
>>539946979nigger economics, youll love it—
>>539944729While it seems weird to us, the government thinks this sort of thing is a big deal because that's how industry cartels fall apart. Someone in the cartel will end up offering a discount off the cartel's agreed upon fixed price and will get an advantage over the rest of the cartel like that. Once the cartel falls apart prices fall and consumers benefit at the expense of the shareholders who can afford lobbyists. So making sure nobody starts offering blanket discounts is very important to politicians.
>>539947959nah, anon probably just shops localwhenever i use the SCO at my local grocery store, the fucking thing is as finicky as possible. it'll spaz out and freeze if i'm buying multiple of the same item and scan a single can five or six times, then move the entire stack to the bagging area, or if i pick up a package to double bag it ("item removed from bagging area" it screams, as if to notify the bored teenagers nearby to at least pretend to give a shit [spoiler: they don't])walmart's is calibrated to not gaf because of larger shrink budgets and their policy of letting habitual thieves give them enough rope to hang themselves withpro tip: if you're going to steal from SCO at shartmart, look up the lower limit for felony larceny in your state and track the total value of your thefts to stay under the limiti'm not sure what the time limit is, but if you stay under that line on a rolling 12-month basis then you'll be alright
>>539942961lmao why?
>>539945622>Amazon emailed the manufacturer a list of products with price increases, instructing the vendor: “As you noted, Chewy should be aware of this update and follow suit accordingly.”Man, that would have been abysmally stupid. Nobody at Amazon in a position to communicate something like this should be so stupid as to add "and follow suit accordingly." You say that shit in a phone call, and say the first part only. The first part gets the message across with plausible deniability, certainly as hearsay and even in writing. The second part - they may well have said "so we can complete our plan to illegally collude on pricing."
>>539942961Actually agree with this. Those fucking self checkouts are me doing work for the shitty corp. Shitty corp owes me.
>>539948331my favorite part is that the only pensions the city can pause payments on is city pensions, and you know they're not pausing payments to retired politicians>those city workers aren't working class, they retired years ago, fuck 'emretards deserve what they voted for
>>539943138>AI powered cameras on these things have made it FAR harder to steal compared to even just 3 years agoTrue.
>>539948168>where were you when tariffsnow, anon, explain it like i'm fivewhat makes you think the businesses won't pass along the costs of the forced discount the same way they passed along the cost of the tariffs?
>>539948416Goddamn your civilisation is so backwards it's unrealI have literally never encountered a self-checkout that didn't work properly, it was always something I'd fucked up.
>>539948254A lot of reasons. For one thing the cashier doesn't make 10% of the cost of the items they ring up, so a 10% discount is not an accurate reflection of the price disparity. Another reason is that this law actually encourages grocery stores to fire all their cashiers and increase prices by 10% across the board instead of keeping both cashiers and self checkout or getting rid of the self checkout, so it'll eliminate jobs. Then there is the fact that a 10% discount on all items forces grocery stores to take a loss on marginal items where the profit they make is less than 10% of the sale price, so they'll either have to stop stocking those items or make them need to be rung up manually by a cashier, which is a pain in the ass. I'm sure there are other reasons but those are ones I can think of off the top of my head.
>>539944878>tech illiterate sami retard still drinking reindeer bloodgerman iq is higher than finnish
>>539948725i've never fucked up a self-checkout, you're just retarded
>>539943370They're always trying to pass some feel-good drivel that anyone with a third grade education can find why it won't work. It's like politicians are either evil and clever, or want to address issues but are below downs syndrome. (Just look at that headshot)
>>539942961Cool. So just raise prices by 10% and the store ends up winning for all non-self-checkout sales.
>>539948416>>539948825That's prob because they set higher scale sensitivity in theft-prone areas, so as soon as even 1 gram doesn't match, it triggers an alarm and that can happen a lot. on some days or on shifts that are annoyed as fuck, they switch sensitivity lower and it goes smoother.1 jar of tomato sauce - 300gin reality it's 340g because 40g is the glass or metal jar..etct. researcher of strongpoint sco (norway)
>>539948937No, the majority of people are just that dumb and will remember this when they vote by party line.
>>539945620The store i worked at was a small one but clean and the most well organized. Niggers and junkies would still steal. Fuck off. It's ingrained in their 'brain'
>>539948711>explain it like i'm fivewhen number go up that's bad. when number go down that's good. you understand? when you grow up and have to buy your own groceries you'll understand
>>539949003it's just that local place that has that problem here, shartmart's are sloppy as fuckSCO is also intended, at that particular establishment, as being solely for 'express' checkout to drive customers through the cashiers' lanes because that store makes a big deal about customer serviceso i think they're set to make buying anything more than a couple of items there a pain in the ass.
>>539949212but what makes the numbers go up or down, uncle anon? don't you know?
>>53994296110 percent discount at checkout>raises the price on the shelf 10%Niggernomics everyone
>>539942961>using self checkout
>>539942961That is amazing what an absolute grade-A nigger, look at those curls, that empty smile, the eyes without a single shred of intelligence or awareness. Magnificent, America truly is a blessed land.
>>539949318i do but it's too complicated for you. when you're older you'll understand. for now just try to grasp the basics
>>539943307Look at this fucking grandpa Kmart went out when I was still in high school
>>539943380>this dumb nigger mutt thinks megacorps run on such tight profit margins
>>539949413if you don't know, anon, you can just say so
>>539945124He's saying the demographics have changed.
>>539949521Meant for >>539945148
>>539949497>the only place you can buy groceries is shartmartaren't burgers supposed to be the ones confidently wrong about foreign countries?
>>539943380>>539943023>raises prices by 10% then discounts them by 10%
>>539949420they never fully disappeared anon, they just became invisible to gay people
>You have to do the work of the cashier now, but you have to pay the same amount>Actually more, inflation or somethingBased NYC Dems, fuck these corporate goons
>>539942961I prefer the self-checkout. I'm faster than checkers and baggers always give me attitude if I have preferences over how items are bagged. I like to just do it myself and I will enjoy my 10% discount.
>>539949497>nigger mutt>armenianhttps://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/KR/kroger/profit-margins>Current and historical gross margin, operating margin and net profit margin for Kroger (KR) over the last 10 years. Profit margin can be defined as the percentage of revenue that a company retains as income after the deduction of expenses. Kroger net profit margin as of April 30, 2026 is 0.71%.>The Kroger Co. is one of the world's largest food retailers. The Kroger Co. formats include supermarkets, price-impact warehouse stores, and multi-department stores, which are similar to supercenters, but offer an expanded variety of national brand appeal and general merchandise.
>>539949505sorry not sorry i dont make it a point to discuss economic policy with 5 year olds
>>539949712>oh, so they raised prices to cover the cost of the discount? we'll just legislate a price ceiling, get fucked losers>what the fuck, why are there so many people from out of town buying up all the food, there's none left for the people here>i know, we'll pass legislation that requires people to present an in-state ID to buy groceries, that will solve the problem>no, this isn't an oppressive measure, even though you should have the right to vote without showing ID>stores aren't checking? better pass a law that sends inspectors around to check for compliance, that always works>what the fuck, they're just bribing our inspectors? fuck it, guess we'll just seize control of their businesses>holy shit, nobody in the office knows how to run a grocery store? what do we do now?your solutions have been tried, and there is a pattern in its failureyou woukd know this if you educated yourself instead of letting ghislaine maxwell's dad's company do it
>>539942961this is just a trick to make you want to use self checkout so, they can hire even less people.
>>539949957then why did you even respond in the first place? you're dumb, even for a grown-up
This forces companies to not use self-checkout.What is the point of replacing humans if this will cost more instead of saving money...
>do the work of a cashier>get paid for itits a good idea
>>539943380How did they make money before self checkout?
>>539943138>AI powered cameras on these things have made it FAR harder to stealNigger all that shit does is hallucinate that you stole shit and doesn't even identify that chimps were even there.
>>539950320except they'll just treat it like a tax and raise their prices on everything to cover the costlabor is the most expensive part of overhead, and no amount of taxation is going to make automation of menial tasks less lucrative than dealing with people
>>539950309cause i thought you were smarter than a 5th grader
>>539950640five year olds aren't in fifth grade, dumbfuck
>>539950416by passing the cost of doing business onto the consumer, economically illiterate anon
>>539950461some facial recognition software had to remove gorillas and chimps from the AI training because it kept making "mistakes". not even joking.
>>539951086that was google's image search function that returned pictures of niggers when searching for gorillas, like a decade ago
>>539950859yes exactly. 5th graders are when kids start smartening up but you still have a ways to go
>>539950276These grocery stores today are criminal entities. The entire industry runs off of a profit model of sabotaging their own business and intentionally hamstringing logistics to cook their books. It’s like communism but dumber, since it results in the same exact problems with none of the perks for regular people. The issue is that the only people talking about how there’s even a problem are the commies, while people like you actually believe the people running grocery stores right now are in that position because they’re competent at running grocery stores lmao. All the government has to do is make sure grocery stores are being ran as grocery stores and not jewish money-changing scams.
>>539942961>be grocery stores>raise prices by 10% to offset the new lawCongrats retards.. you did it.
>>539951204wonder if they ever fixed pic relatedfile name is the search term
>>539951666now it's all about white's being replaced and how racist they are
>>539951465it is endlessly amusing that you think your inability to explain simple concepts in simple terms is an indication of intelligence>>539951481nothing in your empty moralizing screed will do anything to change the actual facts. how do you prevent the business from passing the cost of the forced discount on to the consumer?
>>539951666>>539952070this reminds me of the time that anons figured out you could get AI to spit out images of niggers in chains eating watermelon by asking for "philosophers" or "nobles" or "kings" kek
>>539942961i already give myself a discount at self checkout by scanning more expensive items as cheaper items
>>539953126unlobotomized AI seems to know what's up
>>539953024>it is endlessly amusing that you think your inability to explain simple concepts in simple terms is an indication of intelligencewhat is truly amusin is how thats a lot of words for someone definitely not mad lol
>>539949497>He does not know the difference between profit and profit margins....
>>539942961>democrats pass bill to raise grocery prices 10%We did it reddit!
>>539953739why would i be mad at you for being stupid?>>539953573if you've ever looked into discussions about what the AI bros call 'alignment' you'll see that is the entire problem lmao
>>539951082Are the actually operating on margins like that or are they dumping money into capex to pay themselves more?The answer is that is exactly what they are doing. You are defending retired in place boomers for giving themselves a raise to shoot the shit in a meeting.
>>539942961>proces across the entire store raised to make up the difference>self checkout breaks even>cashier checkout costs more to make up the differenceGet fucked, Boomers
>>539945124Guam still has kmart
>>539949957please ignore that jews got richest under democrats
>>539943307Kmart closed 20 years ago
>>539942961based
>>539954300>Are the actually operating on margins like thatYeah, they actually are. The government already heavily intervenes in that market at a ton of different levels with things like farm subsidies, government certifications of food quality, and minimum wage laws when grocery stores are already businesses which need a lot of low skilled labor. I remember hearing a joke about this once which had a punchline to the effect that Amazon was actually an extremely roundabout way for Jeff Bezos to finally start a profitable grocery store.
>>539943035now the 10% discxouint will be u used to justify mass layoffs and fully automated total surveillance no staff shops
>>539943380Print margins aren't real.
Why are so many /pol//tards itt buying the lie that they NEED to raise prices by 10% if that happens? This objectively cant be true because HOW WERE THEY OPERATING BEFORE THOSE SELF-CHECKOUTS!!?Raising prices will be motivated by pure corporate greed and then consumers can just choose to buy from stores that won't raise that will profit from that immensely at the expense of greedy shops which will make-up for the decrease in price by farGod damn im getting too smart for this board
>>539959059>Why does the grocery store never have what I want in stock???You after they implement this
>>539959156>t. shitmart shill
>110% offNiggers come back wanting to get paid to stealPoliticians make law forcing grocery stores to pay shoplifters This fucking timeline
>>539942961LMAO fuckin retards. Now prices will just go up 10%
>>539942961Like it should be.
>>5399429614637374 cashiers out of work in 1 step
>>539948416>scan a single can five or six times, then move the entire stack to the bagging areaso you're retarded too. the machine expects each item on the scale as it's scanned. that you can't understand that it is a machine that can only function in one manner makes you retarded.that said, these machines suck, the programmers for them suck and the people who install them suck
>>539942961Why did all prices rise by 10% xisters :(
>>539942961I know gas stations give a discount if you pay in cash.What will stop stores from increasing prices by 10%? We seem to be told companies will raise prices for any reason.
>>539943023>>539943138All that will lead to is storing banning people or locking up more items.
>>539960218nah, anon, i just worked enough cash registers myself that i use the wagie tricks to save timenot my fault that the tards operating the machine expect me to check myself out like a retarded boomer
>>539948331Niggernomics
>>539959059Given you're a lefty memeflag, this probably all happened before you were born, but the shift to self-checkout happened as a result of higher minimum wages and then spread out from those markets when it turned out to be profitable. It turns out if you have to pay retarded highschool students $15 an hour to bag groceries, it's worth it to invest in the self-checkout machines and save money in the long run. There used to be "tiers" of jobs, with retail and fast food being the lowest stuff for kids in or just out of school, but with the combination of everyone getting degrees and mass migration flooding the country with unskilled scab workers, employers were able to become way too picky and those entry tier jobs became life long employment for many. The progressives are offering solutions (that give them the power to set prices) to the problems they created through mass migration and DEI degrees. It's the same playbook they've always had: create a problem, blame your opponent for it, and offer a solution that benefits you.
>>539959059can you explain in simple terms how a business decides what to set the prices at?
>>539954300i buy from my local grocery, anon, not a megachaini sincerely doubt my store that only does business in two adjacent flyover states is getting down with retarded financial chicanerymaybe stop shopping at places that operate that way
>>539942961Margins are much lower than that they would lose money. This will only cause them to artificially raise prices.Democrats are fucking retards
>>539960857they use AI tools that chuds love so much that optimize the price around the desire of clients to buy their overpriced goods which will be significantly lowered when that discount happens which is why the shills really HATE this new tax itt and try to influence your opinion (desire to buy their goods) here by lying they HAVE TO DO THIS so you accept the unnecesary price hike
>>539961385>when that discount happenswhen they increase the prices in response to that discount
>>539950461I don't know why you stormfronters get online and say shit like this. You as a white man are fine. They will never stand behind you breathing down your neck while at self checkout. They anticipate a black person scanning something incorrectly (not really, it's just their system hallucinating) so they can walk on over and hopefully say "haha gatcha nigger". You're less likely as a white man to have to show your receipt out the door because loss prevention won't whisper sweet nothings in the ear of the guy checking receipts for whites. You're not going to be followed round by a secret shopper with an empty cart if you're white. They're not looking at you, they're looking at the black folks.
>>539959373what a pro, shes done that before
>>539943138Maybe for white people. But have you considered that niggers all look the fucking same?
>>539961685That's not an argument. If I have 99 blue marbles and 1 very bright, glowing marble that sticks out in the pack of blue marbles, then my eye will look at the bright marble. Loss prevention sees a black walk through the door they will focus all their attention on the blackie and leave every other potential thief alone.
