A supermarket trip may soon look different, thanks to electronic shelf labels

OPB ^ | 06 19 2024 | Lola Murti

[Justa]

Eh, they use the digital (LCD) price tags at my local commissary. IMO they use them mostly for inventory control. When an item brand isn’t selling and approaching expiration, they can drop the price to clear it out. Within an hour of closing they drop the price of roast chicken from $6.99 to $4.99.

I usually save 25% vs. WM but I like WM brands better. Don’t really like the quality of Freedom’s Choice brand.

[Varsity Flight]

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[Recovering_Democrat]

Watch grocery prices change based on who is shopping. Are you from an oppressed class? Prices are cheaper. Are you a a rich white man? The price just quadrupled.

[SaveFerris]

yeah better watch ‘em

it’s a form of bait=and-switch

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

“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.

Die, corporate scum.

[meyer]

I think we should force them to place an individual tag on each item like the old days. Some stores put a multitude of prices on the bin, but it’s near impossible to find the item that’s actually assigned the price.

[GranTorino]

Prelude to the mark of the beast.

[meyer]

The number of items that were repriced while shopping will stack up quickly at the checkout as people decide that they don’t want it at the higher price. I mean, I’d just say no to an up-priced item. And at some point, if too many occur, I’d just leave the items and go to another store. Let them pay someone to restock all that I intended to buy.

[SaveFerris]

[Whole Foods, Amazon Fresh stores,]

Somebody said they're not doing Amazon One as much lately - I'm never in these stores so I have no idea what's happening locally - guess they laid off a bunch of people - but is Just Walk Out completely dead? I'd be surprised if it was.

WORLD-WIDE GAME CHANGER
COMPLIMENTS OF COVID-19⁽⁸⁴⁾

Amazon One - Palm-print scanner

Pay with your hand - Forerunner to the coming Mark of the Beast (Revelation 13)

Using one's hands to pay for food. A boxed "convenience store" (Hudson Nonstop, LAX airport, Dallas Love Field airport), to Arbor Trails Whole Foods (Austin, Texas), to paying for food at Panera Bread, to other Whole Foods stores (owned by Amazon).

Yes, I use Amazon for shopping from time-to-time but this "scan-your-hand-to-pay" is already alive and in operation - no doubt it will continue to expand / grow in acceptance. The conditioning (intentional or unintentional, it will make no difference) has started.

I'm sure the people in the pics think they're showing the latest "cool thing" - possibly mocking and laughing at any reference to the "Mark of the Beast" - this is just a sampling of the pictures I found.

By the time the actual Mark of the Beast, these kinds of payment systems will be fully-embedded in society I think.

Amazon One

The world is not there - YET. But the conditioning, intentional or unintentional - it will make no difference. Fast, easy, secure, convenient. IMHO, cash will be outlawed. Digital Currency 100% will be the future. /Captain Obvious































And so shall the world be prepared for 7 years of 'Peace and Security'

[Indy Pendance]

They’re digital coupon system is the worst. I hate using my phone for shopping. What will happen to old people? Are they going to give them their own personal employee to help shop?

[cyclotic]

Michigan was the last state to require item pricing, y’know, the old fashioned price tags.

If the scan didn’t match the price tag and you called them on it, the store had to refund you the mistake plus ten times the mistake up to $5.

That was an actual incentive to charge correctly and thus stores were pretty accurate.

With just shelf pricing and now dynamic pricing, that incentive is completely out the window.

About our only response is to find another place to spend our money and let the store know why.

In a similar vein, a few weeks ago, my wife and I went to dinner with a friend. We went to a place we hadn’t been before and found out that all ordering was done through their QR code app. We started to comply with that idiocy then I looked at my friend and said “Wanna go somewhere else?” We got up and left. As I was leaving, I saw the manager and told him that their policy of not actually serving their customers lost them my business.

See my tag line.

[GailA]

No one is happy with the electronics, self-scans, or new shopping carts.

Nor the price increases. Bad produce, pushing Gates worms, or eating vegan. Chemicals are the #1 issue for many. I’ve dropped 20 lbs by changing my eating habits, and label reading.

[butlerweave]

Don’t forget they’re converting our food supply to islam very quickly

[Alberta's Child]

I can see this working, but only to the extent that the prices change once a day (ideally while the store is closed). That’s how the digital pricing at gas stations work, and you don’t see major problems with it.

[jmcenanly]

I can just imagine the price of groceries as being as volatile as stock prices.

[Scrambler Bob]

“But this was only $2.50 when I placed it in the cart.”
= = =

And, the cart tracker says you pushed your cart 0.134 miles.

At $10 per mile for cart usage, that adds $1.34

[NorthWoody]

One would think that the sheer number of them that would have to be purchased, installed, maintained, replaced, etc. in just one Walmart store would be cost-prohibitive.