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A supermarket trip may soon look different, thanks to electronic shelf labels (www.npr.org)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

That would also explain why Aldi in the UK also has these while other stores don't.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Seems the two German supermarket chains really like to have the same infrastructure everywhere. Everywhere I go the Aldis look exactly the same. They have slightly different products depending on the country. But the price tags, interior, ... is basically the same. Okay and we don't have "Flaschenpfand" everywhere... (deposit on the plastic bottles and the machines where you can return bottles.) I bet all of this makes it a lot easier for their techs and management. And it could also explain why they sometimes redo a store that still looks fine and fit it with the latest shenanigans.

And as an aside: I've shopped in the first Aldi store ever. It's not far from where I live.