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Why your Amazon order confirmation emails have become so unhelpful
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this post was submitted on 18 Aug 2026
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AI won't help for pricing anyway because the company actively tries to get you to buy the less quality more expensive products, as outlined in a John Oliver episode.
Oh no, doesn’t help you for pricing. The company! To figure out just how much they can charge for just how shitty a thing!
Yeah sorry I knew that, obviously it does help pricing, their pricing, dynamic pricing coming to you soon!
CCTV cameras will know who everyone is and digital tags can give a price based on their metrics, or online with different prices. It's already started. Consumer Reports outed Instacart for doing it online already, a firm that operates shopping carts on multiple websites as a vendor.
I think this is the article: https://www.consumerreports.org/money/questionable-business-practices/instacart-ai-pricing-experiment-inflating-grocery-bills-a1142182490/
The future fucking sucks.