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[–] [email protected] 79 points 10 months ago (28 children)

It'd be just as easy to slap the menu on the wall as opposed to a QR, but I've noticed a couple places near me that did this are constantly jacking up the prices an item or two at a time, so it probably helps to keep things flexible with QR as opposed to printing out a new menu every 3 weeks

[–] [email protected] 32 points 10 months ago (13 children)

This makes me wonder whether there's ever price discrimination going on. A system like this could give different prices based on what kind of phone you're using if they wanted it to, and you wouldn't necessarily know it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (4 children)

Wh... why would they do that?

I guess maybe if a phone company is secretly paying them to, but why would a phone company go to restaurants to give their customers lower prices? And even if they did, what do they gain from that if they don't want anyone to know?

And even if they did, the waiter would also have to take note of what kind of phone the customers use, and give them the respective price on the bill. One slip-up could reveal the scheme.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I saw an article on lemmy about this yesterday, though not sure whether I'll find it again.

Hotels, flights, retailers already have an abundance of price discrimination. Target shows higher prices when your device is physically closer to a store and lower prices when you are further away. IPhone users tend to pay higher prices because they assume that since you had the extra money to pay for an expensive phone, you'll be open to spending more at other stores.

Likewise, if they see your device or other devices on your network/near you making several searches for hotels/flights the price will increase.

It's just another way to build greed into the system

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

That Target one sounds definitely illegal.

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