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Kroger's Plan to Use Facial Recognition Raises Concerns About Surge Pricing (gizmodo.com)
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[–] scoobford@lemmy.zip 77 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Kroger and Safeway have been the absolute face of enshittification since the pandemic. They've also been accused of price fixing, and are trying to merge into a monopoly. They also regularly abuse disabled employees (at multiple stores in my area).

I have absolutely no doubt that they will do this the moment they think they can get away with it. In a fair economy, they would have been driven out of business years ago.

[–] Routhinator@startrek.website 23 points 1 month ago (1 children)

They also renamed a bunch of locations from Safeway > FreshMart and laid off career employees with years of raises and benefits and forced them to reapply under the new franchise name. Same owners, same stores, but LOOPHOLE.

Fucking assholes.

[–] njordomir@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

That's so dirty and unethical. I hope their conscience tortures them for years, but I realize that's wishful thinking since there is a good chance they've so completely repressed any concept of ethics or morality that they would sell their own mother into slavery for an extra tenth of a penny.