Comment on Walmart's use of digital price tags signal the future of retail shopping, but consumers are worried
AndrasKrigare@beehaw.org 4 weeks ago
Haven’t digital price tags been used for decades? I’m sure these will be more high tech, but I remember ones like this at least 20 years ago
fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks ago
Yeah these have existed for a while.
I think the only thing new is that walmart previously talked about actually implementing “on demand pricing” and now that they’re adding digital price tags they could actually do it.
Sauerkraut@discuss.tchncs.de 4 weeks ago
I think this will be potentially be a good thing (at first) as you won’t have people wasting their life away just endlessly updating the price of every individual item.
Things will get messy when they start price gouging based on current inventory, weather, holidays or emergency situations.
Things will get deeply dystopian if they start scanning customers as they enter and change the price based on their skin color, gender, clothing, or estimated net worth.
tmyakal@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
Walmart credit card. They don’t need to estimate when you willingly provide it.