Consumer, we have detected that you are above the poverty line. The 99¢ price printed on this Arizona tea can only applies to those below the poverty line. Your total comes to $3.67.
Security cameras feed goes through an AI model to classify customers into wealth bands based on appearance, and continually updates the e-ink price labels nearest each customer accordingly.
It's perfect. This is the market segmentation dream. Segment the market without having to spend the resources to create different versions of the product for each segment. Just change the price per segment! 🥰
"I was stuck waiting at checkout for another geriatric millennial to ask the price for every. single. item! As if they can't afford it, despite all evidence to the contrary. Of fucking course they didn't have Zelle. And then they left half of it at the register, in everyone's way!"