CVS wants you using its mobile app to unlock store shelves

[njordomir@lemmy.world]

My local grocery store from the Safeway family of stores has Bluetooth beacons that crashed my old phone. Now I turn my phone off as I have to assume these are to track where I am in the store and for how long so they can further target their ads.

[dantheclamman@lemmy.world]

Fortunately, at the farmers market, you can usually look up the farmer. Eg, visit once or twice just observing, seeing who gets visited by regulars, Google the farm name to look up details and reviews, etc

[quokka1@mastodon.au]

@howrar @dantheclamman I needed a replacement garage door remote last week. Bunnings has them locked to the shelf thing. I did bend it a fair amount but couldn't get the thing off. Found an employee who seemed as pissed off as I was. He didn't have a key though. So had to disappear for quite some time to find one. It's a $60 product in a reasonable size pack. Not a $6000 item I can slip in my pocket. Another reason to shop online (I needed that item that day otherwise I would have got it online)

[njordomir@lemmy.world]

Will do. Cleaning up the sourcing of my food for both health and political reasons is a goal of mine for 2025. If I can grow it, trade it, or get it from a farmer locally, the supermarkets can take the loss.

[max_dryzen@mander.xyz]

I wonder whether it ever occurs to normies that surrendering PII in order to transact amounts to hidden cost inflation

[serenissi@lemmy.world]

Me reading the headline: who tf resurrected the cvs and made an android app for it

[demdaru@lemmy.world]

This sounds to me like satire. If you hire people, you need to go through HR process and then you are rewuired to pay them monthly.

System is one and done. It may be pricey up front, but as they already have infrastructure in place, long-term costs will be laughable compared to additional employee per every shop.

In what world keeping employee doing useless work is worth it?

[lh0ezvt@sh.itjust.works]

Unfortunately, farmers markets are rarely open in the evening. Actually that is a bit of a business opportunity...

[laurelraven@lemmy.zip]

I think I'll just shop elsewhere, thanks

[lh0ezvt@sh.itjust.works]

What the fuck, for real?

[trainguyrom@reddthat.com]

Bigger problem is we have these companies with so much market capture that there isn't growth to be found so they find ways to either change the laws to drive down costs or find ways to extract more money per consumer, so either way the line goes up while the majority of people suffer

We need to shift the culture away from investors who expect the line to always go up. Normalize companies just being happy to turn a nice profit doing what they do without growing because they realistically cannot grow any more