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The dynamic pricing scheme allows the prices of vending machine items to be raised when demand is high and lowered when sales are low.

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[–] udon@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago

It's fun if you remember that dynamic prices are supposed to reflect changes in supply and demand. Never had supply issues anywhere at a vending machine. That is a solved problem. Still, they use a "repair" mechanism for a problem that doesn't exist to say nicely that they increase prices.