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NanaCat

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34. They'll stop
Fri Jun 7, 2024, 05:23 PM
Jun 2024

When they realize how expensive it is to keep them working, not only in the cost of battery replacement, but the cost in employees having to pull them when they break down.

When I was visiting my sister in Austin, one of the grocery stores had electronic price tags. They went back to paper because it was so prohibitively expensive to maintain those electronic tags.

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I think Kohl's has similar digital screens in some of their stores. Probatim Jun 2024 #1
Every Kohl's I've Been To ProfessorGAC Jun 2024 #13
Since the prices the register rings up are what's in their database intrepidity Jun 2024 #2
A can of peaches is $3 before lunch. Then it is $4 after lunch. n/t Jacson6 Jun 2024 #5
But that can happen now, can't it? intrepidity Jun 2024 #8
Much harder to send a clerk running through the aisles than to program a price hike. erronis Jun 2024 #11
Actually it changes just before lunch, right when you get hungry. Angleae Jun 2024 #9
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But is that really a thing? intrepidity Jun 2024 #19
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They are required to honor the price on the tag Mosby Jun 2024 #26
Only Publix will give you an item for free if tag says different than it rang up. jimfields33 Jun 2024 #31
Expect the prices to rise storewide dweller Jun 2024 #3
They save money Johnny2X2X Jun 2024 #4
Exactly. I'd guess these are as accessible as the paper tags underpants Jun 2024 #7
It's part of the "surveillance pricing" - the stores can know what your're interested in erronis Jun 2024 #12
So, like, the minute you touch the item, the price jumps? intrepidity Jun 2024 #20
And if the price changes dweller Jun 2024 #21
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Actually I'm adept at pricing at Wally World dweller Jun 2024 #39
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Long article by Cory Doctorow on this (and other types of surveillance) erronis Jun 2024 #24
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Thank you for that link intrepidity Jun 2024 #42
That's funny. I highly doubt that's how it works. Where's all the workers who'd have to watch every person jimfields33 Jun 2024 #32
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Thank God. That'd be ridiculous jimfields33 Jun 2024 #40
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They make more money AND it makes Biden's "inflation" numbers look bad. Again billionaires bending the election to.... usaf-vet Jun 2024 #22
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Absolutey-Fing-Correct. usaf-vet Jun 2024 #30
I think that's because the grocery is where most people's disposable income goes questionseverything Jun 2024 #33
They are a cost savings Zeitghost Jun 2024 #28
The big savings will be in Go-Backs FreeForm73 Jun 2024 #6
I've Seen That ProfessorGAC Jun 2024 #15
Gads, remember when store clerks used price stampers Wednesdays Jun 2024 #10
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They are called price guns and are still used a lot. Mosby Jun 2024 #29
What I'm talking about predated the "price gun" Wednesdays Jun 2024 #35
I don't even have to click that link and I can hear the sound it makes intrepidity Jun 2024 #43
I lasted a little over a month doing that as a temp job. hunter Jun 2024 #46
This is all about surge pricing. marble falls Jun 2024 #27
They'll stop NanaCat Jun 2024 #34
Our supermarket had them for about a year. hunter Jun 2024 #47
Less paper, less manpower needed to print/change that paper. tinrobot Jun 2024 #44
My ShopRite stores do that, it saves having to print and replace price stickers. TheBlackAdder Jun 2024 #45
The people replacing the shelf tags tend to be the higher paid ones Trekologer Jun 2024 #48
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