YES! This is a pet peeve of mine since I don’t use a smartphone (by choice in my case). I also hate the stupid loyalty cards. It’s all for tracking and exploiting their customers, fuck that. We’re always told to boycott Walmart, but most grocery stores are no better than they are (all merged into just a few chains that have driven out the independents) – and at least Walmart has the same prices for everyone in the store.

I am actually surprised that this isn’t law in Europe already. I hate when I go to a supermarket, I have to always check the app for coupons and discounts. Otherwise I would have to pay 30% more for my shopping list.

The goal is to just give the discount and stop ripping people off.

Good!! I moved to a new area and started using my new store card. A year later I realized I wasn’t saving as much as I could - they give you 1% back only if you manually apply the money you earned on their app. I didn’t know about this. I also didn’t know that the store sometimes had 3 prices - regular price, store card price, another price if you apply the coupon on the app.

This is why I shop at Aldi and Costco and my local grocery co-op. No secondary prices. No coupons needed. No rebates that aren’t automatically applied at point of purchase.

Don’t shop at garbage places that do pricing shenanigans.