Created the need to establish this regulation. And our local ordinance here in San Francisco explicitly cited california business and professions code 12 0 24. 6 ~ and that states that no personal firm, corporation or association shall advertise, solicit or represent any means a product for sale or purchase if it isnt intend ited to entice consumer into a transaction different from that originally presented. And thats why we started looking into these larger entities that do business online. First, we looked at amazon, and amazon, even if you add an item to your shopping cart, the price can fluctuate after you have added it. So, the question was does that does that entice a customer to add it to the cart to purchase the item and then the business changes that on the price that what originally represented. Walmart says they cannot confirm price of an item until after order. And then apple reserves the right to change prices for products displayed on the apple site at any time and it res
Email that says prices of the following item have changed in your shopping cart because they have sales all the time and they are adjusting prices up and down due to all kinds of inputs. And, so, i think that generally speaking there is not so much abuse any longer. And, so, its very interesting. Im not quite sure, you know, how much need to be done in this area as Technology Moves Forward because i think theres a lot of convergence in term of the databases and realtime pricing and all that kind of stuff, but very informative presentation. Thank you very much. Thank you. Commissioners . Commissioner toursarkissian. I have a question. You mentioned prior to the meeting you noticed a lot of retails, Retail Stores did not know about the registration. In fact, youre surprised that many of them did not register and they were they were fined for not registering . There is a fine. If you look on the legislation online, it lists all the fines. I believe its either 50 or 100 an infraction. If i
And, so, its very interesting. Im not quite sure, you know, how much need to be done in this area as Technology Moves Forward because i think theres a lot of convergence in term of the databases and realtime pricing and all that kind of stuff, but very informative presentation. Thank you very much. Thank you. Commissioners . Commissioner toursarkissian. I have a question. You mentioned prior to the meeting you noticed a lot of retails, Retail Stores did not know about the registration. In fact, youre surprised that many of them did not register and they were they were fined for not registering . There is a fine. If you look on the legislation online, it lists all the fines. I believe its either 50 or 100 an infraction. If its intentional, i believe that to be a misdemeanor. But it what most of the people working at the counters didnt really know about it, like i think safeway within the last couple years was one of the big businesses that got in trouble for charging overcharging for a
Technologies. And i think its a disservice to Small Business. I think its a disservice to innovation because it says, oh, another innovation, another opportunity to tax. And taxation, fear of taxation should not be an impediment to innovation. And fear of taxation should not be an impediment to making our businesses more efficient so that we can deal with things like rising minimum wages, rising real estate prices and increases in other taxes that are perhaps more legit. And, so, and it gives rise to a government that when it starts employing people to go out and see if people are violating these ridiculous things, right, rather than focusing on the major tax he that we already have and kind of accept the taxes we should be charging. So, you know, i think that simply taxing something that looks at a database and reports a price is an absurd thing when theres weights and measures and things like that involved, maybe its more certainly there might be a certification. If there is a certif
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