1) I don't have a smart phone and don't need or want one. If nothing else they are too dang big. A small / cheap fliphone in my pocket is quite sufficiently bulky, thank you. Not to mention the usual other issues some FReepers are sure to bring up.
2) Even if I did have a smart phone, no printed pricing on the shelves is a customer time waster of huge proportions. No longer can I glimpse the price from 10 ft. away and INSTANTLY know if it's a better price than, say, next-door (almost) Wally World or the sale at my more local grocer. What other glitches and delays are likely to pop up too? Aldi has enough trouble with the IT part of their business as it is...
Generally I oppose over-regulation, but a law that says simple (visually) readable prices must be on store shelves does not seem unreasonable to me.
I hate the big city.
“scan capability”
The Real Canadian Superstore, a main grocery chain in Canada, uses digital price tags. This way, they can change prices from head office with maybe one person confirming the price changes.
I agree with you, prices should be posted with the product.
It’s all part of getting you to pay with your phone.
I don't think their policy is going to last.
Where are you at? Here in Mandeville/Covington our Aldis is all ticketed pricing? the only thing they try to push is automated check out..I refuse. I deal with a cashier...or they can put the cart away and lose their shirt labor wise.
Maybe we should blame BIDEN for the inflation ??!!
Where I’ve seen digital price signs in other supermarkets, the price is displayed.
I don’t have room on my phone for for their spyware. I’ll just let the cash register do the price check and decide at that point whether I want the item or not. Let them staff up to re-stock all the unbought goods. Plus it will throw the speed metrics off for the checkout. Even better if the manager has to come over and clear each item.
People will get used to not bothering to go through the process of having to check the prices, they will just grab the product.
On a related note, my local Giant Eagle grocery store has discounts on certain items. Just scan the item’s bar code, and a discount will be applied.
Well, I don’t know how the hell that’s supposed to work. I don’t have a smart phone. And I don’t know how scanning an item will somehow make my bill lower at the register.
So how’s about this, Giant Eagle? How’s about putting a tag on the shelf where the item is? “On sale. $2.00, reduced to $1.50.”
Pretty straightforward, eh?
Some folks don’t shop with phones.
Two options:
Yell “Price check!” every time you want to know a price.
Bring multiple items to checkout and then buy just the ones that scan a price you like. You’ll need a big cart.
I did the latter ONCE when a random pharmacy in a city I was visiting had NO prices on ANYTHING and I just wanted deodorant and toothpaste. I didn’t know how much anything was and there was no one to ask, so I brought a dozen deodorants and a dozen toothpastes to the checkout and had the checker scan each one for the best price and let them re-shelf the rest. Hey, wasn’t my idea.
I will watch for it at our Aldi….
German store. Not impressed when I went there once by circumstance. As I recall they didn’t even have bags. Weird place.
Safeway is far worse in the other direction. There are THOUSANDS of “Sale” stickers all over the store that are all changed weekly. There are basic prices, sale prices for everybody, “Member” prices, weekly special prices, Friday special prices, better prices if you buy four of something (even if you only want one), and on and one. Even worse, they want you to use their app to digitally “clip” product coupons and you don’t get that special price unless you enter your phone number in the terminal. Much much worse, I find that maybe 25% to 30% of the special prices do not ring up correctly. I grabbed a bottle of wine on sale (marked on the display case as $11) and it rang up at full price ($20). The clerk was rude and the store manager had to roam all over the store to find the display. Then they couldn’t get the right price to ring up on the register, so I had to go over to Customer Service to pay for it there with the $11 price.
Shopping at Safeway has become an absolute nightmare ever since they kept piling on more and more digital crap and very little of it actually works.
If I cannot clearly, easily and quickly see the price of something without scanning it with my smartphone and having to put my cheaters on, I'm not buying it.
Aldi's is my go-to store and where I make my grocery dollar stretch as much as possible. This though? It'll triple my time in the store and that's not a price I'm willing to pay.
I want to get what I need quickly and get out. Aldi's making "quickly" going away means a lost customer as far as I'm concerned.
For example, a can of baked beans would be 39 cents.
Get back to Walmart. A quality product for a fair price.
They want to know who you are, what you are buying and not buying.