Key Points
Walmart is rolling out digital shelf labels and expects the technology to be in all U.S. stores by year’s end. Kroger also has begun experimenting with the technology.
The nation’s largest retailer says the digital price tags help associates do their jobs better and stresses that prices on items will be exactly the same for every consumer in every store.
Some legislators are wary of the technology’s potential to be used in dynamic pricing models that disadvantage consumers, with Sens. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) and Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.) introducing a bill to ban it.
When I worked in retail I wished for digital tags. Would save so much money and the environment. Go check out your local Walgreens those fucking tags they changed every fucking Sunday and takes all day to replace. You know how much wasted plastic gets thrown away at every Walgreens every Sunday? Fucking crazy. So digital tags could be a good thing but of course they will abuse this and fuck customers.