It’s not more people using the product, it’s the limited population who are paying $200/month use it way more than they thought they would. So the costs per person paying that are going way over $200/month. Basically, they made the mistake of setting a fuck off price that was too low and a bunch of people did the math and took them up on the offer.
Your unemployment rate and eviction rate sources are from 2020, there may have been something causing those high numbers that year. Like, I get your point, but be factual and up to date when you’re trying to make the point. Otherwise you let the billionaire shills tear your argument apart and totally discount the whole thing.
In fact, dodging while publicly saying that he knows he’s being sued is likely to actually fuck him harder once he is in court. And publicly saying that he’ll just go bankrupt and avoid paying them anything will also probably fuck him harder. He needs to get a lawyer and just shut the fuck up.
Your plan is certainly quicker, which is an upside.
I’m glad the new owners decided to increase rodent pest control, leading to less food for stray cats to eat in the area.
But you don’t carry the sign with you. It stays at the shelf. Sure, they could build a system that tracks you everywhere in the store and marks what price they showed you and tells the register what price to display when you check out. They’ll try all that, but this won’t do it yet.
Yeah, I’m not actually that worried. I’ve seen these in use at hardware stores for quite a while now. It’s just useful to assume that Walmart is planning to fuck you over. That’s a good point with BT though, many of the kind of microcontrollers that would be used for this sort of thing offer BT connectivity as well.
As long as you have a free market and not a coordinated one it will work out great for you guys too
Ah, so we’re fucked
There’s not really a way to do that with this technology. These are just price tags on the shelf, so if they changed the price it would change it for everyone in the store.
I periodically stumble across Joel’s blog and it blows my mind how relevant it typically is.
Holy shit, they really buried the lede with that headline. For sure, throw away the key.
The linked URL at the top is The Seattle Times reporting on this comment. The original comment was just being reposted here for full context.
First time I encountered one was in the Helsinki airport at like 5am. I definitely stared at it for a solid 30 seconds trying to figure out what to do with it. And I may have just wiped my hands on my pants and walked away in the end.