So we accept that our currency is being debased by an inflation index that barely tracks real inflation, as we buy half of all mortgage bonds federally to juice home values and running QE, but we want to ban algorithms that attempt to maintain profits?

If you don’t want prices to rise then perhaps a lower inflation target makes more sense. Maybe even a law that wages automatically rise with inflation. But we all know they don’t want that, they would need to actually raise taxes if they did that, and housing wouldn’t turn into a giant ponzi scheme that artificially boosts GDP.

The link to their form where you can give your input:

Feedback form – Algorithmic pricing and competition: Discussion paper

This consultation is open until July 22, 2025 (11:59pm Pacific time). Interested parties are invited to provide their feedback by mail or through the online feedback form. The aim of this paper is to strengthen the Bureau’s understanding of algorithmic pricing. The discussion paper highlights key questions on algorithmic pricing, including:

(competition-bureau.canada.ca)

Algorithmic pricing is all about making a very small set of people richer by making all the rest of us pay more money for products.

So, fuck no.

Does this mean flyers with listed prices are now useless.

What happens when the marked price on a shelf changes when I get to the cash register. Currently I walk away from a grocery cart of food if there is any hassle at the till. They can deal with it.

How are you supposed to plan trips when the the price is always changing

I have to add an attachment in order to submit.

Maybe I should just send a meme.

I sent this.

How about we ban all of that crap, then? Because algorithmic pricing will be abused, we all know it because things like these always get abused because the abuse is so damn simple.

An absolute no to this

It’s collusion out in the open