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In reply to the discussion: Walmart to replace paper price tags with digital screens - Video News Report [View all]NanaCat
(2,332 posts)34. They'll stop
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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Walmart to replace paper price tags with digital screens - Video News Report [View all]
Jacson6
Jun 2024
OP
Much harder to send a clerk running through the aisles than to program a price hike.
erronis
Jun 2024
#11
Only Publix will give you an item for free if tag says different than it rang up.
jimfields33
Jun 2024
#31
It's part of the "surveillance pricing" - the stores can know what your're interested in
erronis
Jun 2024
#12
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
They make more money AND it makes Biden's "inflation" numbers look bad. Again billionaires bending the election to....
usaf-vet
Jun 2024
#22
I think that's because the grocery is where most people's disposable income goes
questionseverything
Jun 2024
#33
My ShopRite stores do that, it saves having to print and replace price stickers.
TheBlackAdder
Jun 2024
#45