friend_of_satan@lemmy.world to Fuck AI@lemmy.worldEnglish · 16 days agoNew Report Reveals Walmart’s Patents for Price-Gouging Tech // Walmart’s US CEO said customers’ order value jumps 40% when they use the company’s AI shopping assistant.groundworkcollaborative.orgexternal-linkmessage-square14linkfedilinkarrow-up1120arrow-down12file-textcross-posted to: [email protected]
arrow-up1118arrow-down1external-linkNew Report Reveals Walmart’s Patents for Price-Gouging Tech // Walmart’s US CEO said customers’ order value jumps 40% when they use the company’s AI shopping assistant.groundworkcollaborative.orgfriend_of_satan@lemmy.world to Fuck AI@lemmy.worldEnglish · 16 days agomessage-square14linkfedilinkfile-textcross-posted to: [email protected]
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minus-squareapfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up9arrow-down1·16 days agoThe article is not about the AI piece, though it does mention it. It is about Walmart’s groundwork efforts to pave the way for price gouging.
minus-squarecolforge@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up8arrow-down1·16 days agoSo the second part of the title is completely irrelevant and misleading because it implies that they are literally inflating prices by 40% using AI right now.
minus-squareapfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up6arrow-down1·16 days agoIt is clunky but the double slash indicates they are two very separate sentences.
minus-squarequeermunist she/her@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up5arrow-down2·15 days agoDouble slash has no special meaning in English. That’s a programming thing.
minus-squareapfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down1·15 days agoYeah just OP sloppily trying to square leg / round hole this in this community.
minus-squareathatet@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down1·15 days agoThat just so happened to be placed right next to each other.
minus-squareapfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·15 days agoI read the article but not the headline. Lol. The actual headline is Walmart Watchdog: New Groundwork Analysis Exposes the Doublespeak Behind Walmart’s Pricing Playbook
The article is not about the AI piece, though it does mention it. It is about Walmart’s groundwork efforts to pave the way for price gouging.
So the second part of the title is completely irrelevant and misleading because it implies that they are literally inflating prices by 40% using AI right now.
It is clunky but the double slash indicates they are two very separate sentences.
Double slash has no special meaning in English. That’s a programming thing.
Yeah just OP sloppily trying to square leg / round hole this in this community.
That just so happened to be placed right next to each other.
I read the article but not the headline. Lol.
The actual headline is