To catch people up on the very short version of what happened yesterday.
Cause a lot of people, a lot of you guys have watched,
and a lot of you are still watching.
And I appreciate that, because the more we talk about it,
the more we have to fix it, right?
If. If there's attention brought to it,
they'll have to do something at some point.
That's the hope,
is that when Walmart. And this is gonna be specifically about Walmart,
because I. That's where I was yesterday,
and that's all I can talk to.
When Walmart was switching to digital tags. Okay.
The very first question I had,
because I don't live in a very huge area,
so Walmart is one of the more limited options.
And then when that happened, I.
I asked, the day I got there and saw it,
I was like, hang on,
how. How does this work?
And I stayed and talked to a manager
and I said, just help me understand.
Is there a set time of day where you change the pricing?
They're like, we don't just change the prices.
No, I know,
but like, at some point,
corporate things will go on sale.
They won't be on sale. Is there like 2:00am,
it rolls to the set, you.
So, like, when.
When do prices change? They're like,
I don't know. What do you mean that prices don't just change?
I was like, they do
things go on sale or off? Of sale.
Uh, something might be a door buster,
something might be a clearance item,
something might be. So when,
like, is there one time that the whole store rolls over
or is it like fluid throughout the day?
Like 10:00am close, four PM, fruit,
you know, like what,
when does that change?
Oh, I don't know.
We hadn't thought about that.
Okay, you hadn't thought about it or corporate hasn't thought about it?
Like who, who hasn't thought about that?
Cause I, I need to know if somebody on a budget,
if I'm going to be shopping for an extended period of time,
my concern is if I'm like, hmm,
I love this,
yet another knock off from Aldi.
I love this, I'm gonna get this,
oh, it's on sale for two 99,
put it in my cart, and then I walk around and shop,
which could take me up an hour,
two hours, cause there's a lot of us.
There's five of us. And if I'm shopping at this level for that many people,
when I get to the register and I boop
and it's 1099, cause the sale ended while I was shopping
and they were like, uh, yeah,
I don't know. I guess you just need to take a picture of everything you're buying
and showing what you're buying next to the price
with the QR code that shows what the price is the moment that you pick it up.
And be helpful if the pictures Time stamped.
And I was like, that's crazy.
That's lunacy behavior. Haha.
I was like, that's not realistic.
And I gestured to my cart that had,
you know,
$300 worth of shit in it, cause I gotta buy food for all of my allergy people.
And they were like, yeah, no, that's.
That's. I don't know.
I don't know an answer. Which I'm not mad at them.
It's not their job to have an answer,
but they should have some sort of an answer.
But again, I was very early in the process of them switching over.
So yesterday my nightmare came true
where I went to the back, found a tag.
The tag, not the shoe,
not the. Not the price tag on the.
The shoe. The tag where it was hanging said $18
scratched out $3.
Like door buster, like it was a sale,
and it was advertising as a sale.
It was in red like,
this is on sale. It's what caught my attention,
and I thought, phenomenal,
because my daughter needs shoes and they would be cute
and they have rainbows and she will love them.
And so I got them. And then just to be careful,
I go to scan the price tag on the shoe,
$3, and it says the same thing. $18. Shh.
Send yellow clearance $3.
Great. Room in the cart,
picked up, I don't know,
10 more things on the way up to the front.
All the way to the front. Of the store.
And I get there, Boop,
1898.
What? And then after going through multiple tiers of employment there,
so I talked to the guy at the register,
I talked to manager of apparel.
I talked to the manager of the store. Yeah.
The price of that shoe changed depending on where I was standing in the store.
What do you mean? So we all walk together back to the shoe department,
scan it there. $3.
Same pair of shoes, nobody put them down.
Boop, $18.
So depending on where I stood in the store,
and I was like, hold on.
So you can just put whatever you want on the rack?
Trick me into thinking I can afford it.
And then as I get closer to the register,
the price increases. Well,
then I'm gonna pay for everything in electronics
if that's how we're playing this game.
I was like, that's not okay. That's gotta be a law.
That's why I was losing. It didn't matter.
I didn't care about the shoes at that point.
What scared me was, you could do this with all of it.
And it's not just me. KP that they were like,
looks like she can afford more.
Let's just raise her price.
You're doing dynamic pricing on all of us.
That's. That's why I lost it. That's why I snapped.