Grocery store prices are changing faster than ever before — literally. This month, Walmart became the latest retailer to announce it’s replacing the price stickers in its aisles with electronic shelf labels. The new labels allow employees to change prices as often as every ten seconds.

“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.

  • RBG
    63 months ago
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    Why not both? (Until the laws are catching up)

    • Radiant_sir_radiant
      73 months ago
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      I offer you a third option: at least one Lidl in Croatia uses blinking tags for stuff they really want you to look at.

      Sometime soon we’re gonna have to invent a spam filter for real life. Hey, maybe that’s the use case that the Vision guys at Apple have been looking for?

      • kurcatoviumEnglish
        43 months ago
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        Tbh Apple Vision pro was probably designed to add more visual spam, not reduce it