• Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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    27 days ago

    This month, Walmart became the latest retailer to announce it’s replacing the price stickers in its aisles with electronic shelf labels. The new labels allow employees to change prices as often as every ten seconds.

    “If it’s hot outside, we can raise the price of water and ice cream. If there’s something that’s close to the expiration date, we can lower the price — that’s the good news,” said Phil Lempert, a grocery industry analyst.

    Jesus, I can’t imagine just coming out and saying this like it’s not fucking deranged to charge people more for WATER during a heat wave.

    Also, the first time the price of something rises in the 5 minutes it takes for me to get my shopping done and get to the checkout, I’m taking a shit on the floor.

    • The Pantser@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      27 days ago

      We’re gonna need some new regulations that require all price labels to have a date/time of last change so we know when they changed the prices.

      • ChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        27 days ago

        There is a rule for gas stations that prices can only be changed once a day. Sounds like that would be a good start.

  • lnxtx@feddit.nlEnglish
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    27 days ago

    Looks like the US is like 10 years behind the Europe.

    But if I understand correctly those electronic shelf labels will be remote controlled. IoT?

  • empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    27 days ago

    So, if these prices can be so easily updated, surely the retailers can now include tax in the listed price. It’s very simple automated math of course…