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For the love of anything holy. Then they'll require to install a shitty app to shop at the grocery store in the first place. No, thank you
A local grocery store has kinda done something like this? Just not as extreme as needing an app to shop. They literally took out all the coupons from the mail ads and they have you install their app for coupons. Which makes you run through hoops to install and make an account. I tried doing it in store but I gave up because of how annoying it was and all the information they needed. Just to used a god damn coupon... I miss the little red coupon dispensers in stores.
If I have to install spyware or open a link at a physical location, my top priority is to leave.
I shop at Jewel (which is currently under threat of being taken over by Kroger) and they're now doing this thing where there will be, for instance, peaches, under a huge sign showing an incredible deal. Then you look at it and realize that the price isn't discounted at all unless you install a "Jewel App" and use it to "claim" a "digital coupon."
ShopRite by me is doing that.
We mostly stopped buying at ShopRite (mostly, because there are some things we can only get there due to dietary restrictions, and they carry things others don't).
I don't think we were the only ones though, because that was gone the last time we were there. It could also be due to the Stop and Shop being "digital coupons only" and being forced to close recently. Don't know for certain. It could just have been a test run for them and they will bring it back later, no idea.
Either way, I have no interest in having their app on my phone. I toyed with the idea of using a cheap tablet I've got and don't touch to install the app on it and connect to in store wifi only.
How is that legal?
Regulatory capture and the Federal Trade Commission asleep at the wheel.
Two major supermarkets do this in the UK now. I fucking hate it, it should be illegal. I also noticed recently a store with digital price labels. Combine the two and we're marching towards the news in the post at a breakneck speed.
Many supermarkets do adjust their prices based on the average income of the location they're in, so this isn't really different in some ways.
Big Y in the Northeast does that well. That's probably the biggest reason why I don't regularly shop there anymore
I think I still have a "gold coin" floating around somewhere from their previous system.
Kroger also does that :(
At least with Kroger you don't have to have the app, you can use their website for everything
I've been shopping at shitty Jewels all my life and I'm moving to an area where I can choose Jewel or Mariano's. I was super excited to find this out until they announced as part of the merger, they would sell off a bunch of stores most of which are Mariano's including the one I would have started going to. I Reeeeeeally hope the merger doesn't go through.