Comment on Walmart Is Putting Digital Labels That Change Prices Instantly on Every Store Shelf in America

• toiletobserver@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  There are rules about having to honor advertised prices. The savvy and poor will notice.

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  • grue@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    1. Hack e-ink price tag
    2. Take photo “proving” low price
    3. Get minimum wage checkout supervisor to honor displayed price
    4. Profit

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    • trackball_fetish@lemmy.wtf ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Careful, thats how you’ll end up in neo-gitmo

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      • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        legitimately, it is fraud.

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  • halcyoncmdr@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    There are rules about having to honor advertised prices.

    Yes there are. And normally you’d go look at the price tag to prove the different advertised price vs register price. What do you do now that they can change that price instantly?

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    • Smokeless7048@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      They have these at the local Canadian tire, they take 2-3 minutes to change the displayed price, flickering a dozen times as they do. Real slow epaper screens

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      • technomage@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        This ^ All the grocery stores in my area have them and it has yet to be an issue.

        Also, not sure if you know this, but apparently if you have the Crappy Tire app, you can get the tags to flash/blink if you’re looking for a product. Not sure how exactly it works on the customer’s end, but my mum was telling me about it lol

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    • Washedupcynic@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      You tell them to take the item out of your order, and they can deal with restocking the item in their shelf.

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