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Surveillance Pricing in stores where you shop

On By rushbabe49In Authoritarianism, business, Culture, Economics, Food and drink, government, Media and the Internet, social media, technology, Washington State Politics1 Comment

This is also called "Dynamic Pricing," and it couldn't exist without the new electronic shelf tags that most grocery chains are now adopting. Those electronic tags enable up-to-the-second price changes, almost invisible to shoppers. Walmart has strenuously denied doing this "surveillance" pricing which takes into account how THEY calculate the "willingness to pay" a higher …

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*Guest Author: Brian Heywood on the Environment Candidate’s Successors, and the WA Legislature’s Hatred of Petroleum (except when they benefit). Readers, this will have you laughing, or maybe crying.

On By rushbabe49In Authoritarianism, business, Culture, Economics, Energy/Petroleum, government, Guest Blogger, Politics in the Age of Trump, Progressive "Thought", social media, transportation3 Comments

Olympia : we hate petroleum Olympia : Petroleum companies we are coming for you Big Oil: would it help if we donated to your campaigns? Olympia: Well, it might help a little bit Big Oil: what if we gave you a lot of money and changed our name? Olympia: to what? Big Oil: How about …

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Corporations Invite The Fox Into the Hen House

On By rushbabe49In Culture, Economics, government, Health care, Politics in the Age of Trump1 Comment

The title of the Wall Street Journal article reads: Firms Seek Government Mask Mandate.  It seems that some companies are asking their state governments to do what California's Gavin Newsom and Washington's (sleepy) Jay Inslee have done-issue statewide requirements that all persons wear face coverings when outside their homes.  The Journal says: Rules vary by …

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