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.
IMHO, The most effective way to protest this involves 2 steps:
1. Visit the store and personally let the manager know your beefs.
2. Let the manager know you’re scratching that store from your grocery shopping habit and that you’re spreading the word among your friends and family. Check the store every 3 months or so to see if they have relented.
The only way to hurt the store is through the cash register.
Aldi will be installing one cm. high LCD strips along the front edge of each shelf that display current prices and will be kept up to date centrally.
Never been in one...
Now I’m positive that I’ll never go in one in the future...
No way I would ever shop that way. I use do my bulk shopping at Walmart and quit when they got rid of most of the cashiers and were rude when I asked for one. I now purchase my groceries online where I can see the prices and have them delivered to my home. So much easier, faster, and less frustrating.
This is a way to get people to buy overpriced merchandise. It’s much harder for the average person to say no at the checkout stand vs in the aisleway. Military commissaries have been using digital price tags for quite some time now, but these display the price. Being digital just makes it easier to change the price from a remote location.
Terrible news. Bad enough that our local Aldi just removed three cashier lanes and put in self-scanners. You still have to call a “helper” over various snags with weighing produce or whatever. I image this digitizing is supposed to answer that.
What will happen to elderly shopperswith just a flip phone? Or privacy luddites who do not wish to have their browsing behavior recorded?
