Consumer groups in U.S. want grocers to ditch digital-only deals

So I guess their fleecing customers.

one item one price. It might be higher or it might be lower, my guess is the American store will remove the cheaper one, when they could go somewhere in the middle.

But doesn't this logic go the other way too? If a higher percentage of older people subscribe to newspapers, they get more coupons to use while those who are younger and are less likely to spend money on papers won't have these coupons.

I dislike anything that requires using an "app". That's just a technique to get people to install the company's tracking tools on our personal tracking devices. This applies to Apple too - in the last 2 weeks, it has been found that Apple was gathering tracking about all their users, regardless of the privacy settings, prior claims by Apple that they don't track anyone, and claims that privacy is very important to Apple. We've heard all that before, right?

https://www.theregister.com/2022/11/14/apple_data_collection_lawsuit/

It is common for online shopping deals to be different based on who is shopping. There's a famous "Apple tax" where just by changing the specific browser reported to the web server, the price for the same item is 5%-15% higher for the Apple user.

If the method of delivery for an item is the same, then the same price should be required by law, regardless of how it is purchased. If I go into the store, pull the item from the shelf and have to "checkout" normally, regardless of where the actual transaction began, then the price should be the same. Now, if they delivery to my home, office, or even to my vehicle and I don't have to go inside the store, a delivery charge make sense.

The grocery stores around here have an app with coupons for deal inside. These are usually also in the paper advertising, but clearly say that using their app to get the deal is required. I don't shop at those places much.

quote: which puts physical coupons in its stores next to advertised deals.

Why don't they save time/paper and just reduce the price?

'Digital only' excludes people and classifies them as second class citizens. As does 'Prime customers only' availability on Amazon.

They want you to use an app so they can monitor you and sell your data. And so they can sack more of their staff from the checkout procedure. That will lead to bigger profits for them, not reduced prices for you.

Consumer groups in U.S. want grocers to ditch digital-only deals

This is a pain, especially if shopping in a store for the first time.