These are all over Europe. It would be cool to see them here in the US.
The most logical use case, as the paper points out, is for discounting expiring or unsold merch, not marking things up.
With the proliferation of apps and websites with everyone's prices, stores are falling all over themselves trying to show they have a low price, not a higher one.
Besides, printing and throwing away millions of shelf tags is just wasteful.
UltraSane · 6h ago
They are all over the US too. Hy-Vee, Kwik-Trip, Aldi, Walmart, Kroger use them.
wormius · 6h ago
"Wait 30 seconds to open bin of ($FRUIT)"
or
"Pay 10 cents to "unlock bin" early"
Time is money. Convenience is money. Money greases the wheel of time.
4d4m · 8h ago
YET
trod1234 · 3h ago
Exactly...
Unless there is a physical process preventing an incentivized company to not raise the price in bait and switch manner, it will happen; and the only reason it hasn't happened yet is because they know people are paying attention right now. Once that buzz disappears, then the corruption begins.
The problem also with messing with the food supply, even when it is for profit, it is also a national security issue when people can't get food.
History has a long memory of such things where corrupt profiteering people ended up facing a brass verdict.
The most logical use case, as the paper points out, is for discounting expiring or unsold merch, not marking things up.
With the proliferation of apps and websites with everyone's prices, stores are falling all over themselves trying to show they have a low price, not a higher one.
Besides, printing and throwing away millions of shelf tags is just wasteful.
Time is money. Convenience is money. Money greases the wheel of time.
Unless there is a physical process preventing an incentivized company to not raise the price in bait and switch manner, it will happen; and the only reason it hasn't happened yet is because they know people are paying attention right now. Once that buzz disappears, then the corruption begins.
The problem also with messing with the food supply, even when it is for profit, it is also a national security issue when people can't get food.
History has a long memory of such things where corrupt profiteering people ended up facing a brass verdict.