Rationalized retail pricing has eliminated haggling as a widespread urban skill

Evidence

With the general rationalization of business in the modern city, haggling, in its pure form, has largely disappeared. Many contemporary urbanites, even those with great knowledge of, and skills in, city ways, cannot play this game-as any number of tourists have discovered to their sorrow. — Lyn H. Lofland, World of Strangers_ Order and Action in…, 980