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A supermarket trip may soon look different, thanks to electronic shelf labels (www.npr.org)

submitted 6 months ago by return2ozma@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 174 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (20 children)

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.

[–] ThePantser@lemmy.world 68 points 6 months ago (3 children)

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.

[–] ThePrivacyPolicy@lemmy.ca 13 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I'd love an NFC tag embedded in them that I could scan and see X weeks/months of history! But that level of transparency would only ever happen with regulation, and in my country (Canada) the grocer oligarchs own the politicians these days...

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