• Connection b/w dynamic pricing and digital labels (Score:2)

  by algaeman ( 600564 ) writes: on Sunday March 22, 2026 @10:17PM (#66055218)

  If the company is saving money using the digital labels, then they should not have any problem with a ban on dynamic pricing. It seems like changing the shelf price is an opportunity for blatant fraud, since a customer could pick up a product and by the time they got to the register there's a different price in the system.

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  • Re: (Score:2)

    by anoncoward69 ( 6496862 ) writes:

    I mean technically that can happen even today with paper labels but tends not to due to the cost of sending someone out to manually update labels. Stores would these days likely update pricing on a daily basis while they are sending people out to restock the shelves after hours.
  • Re:Connection b/w dynamic pricing and digital labe (Score:4, Interesting)

    by sarren1901 ( 5415506 ) writes: on Sunday March 22, 2026 @10:33PM (#66055238)

    I can attest that one of the major grocers in Southern California does not do dynamic pricing like this. Our prices change on Wednesday once. A couple items will go on deeper discount on Friday and that price changes prior to the store opening. Sometime before the store reopens on Saturday, the Friday deals have reverted back to the price they were on Thursday. At no point do our tags change throughout the day. Pepsi products don't magically go up in price during the lunch rush nor does Ice cream change price based on the temperature rising outside. We don't do stuff like that. We never have.

    We also have digital tags in our store. They're a net gain overall, though I will admit the amount of information crammed onto the tag is a bit hard to read at times. Can't wait for the city to come at us with, your text is to small for the seniors to read...They can carry a magnified glass. Heck, I've seen seniors doing this since before I was an adult and I'm in my 40s now.

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    • Re: (Score:2)

      by strikethree ( 811449 ) writes:

      Pepsi products don't magically go up in price during the lunch rush nor does Ice cream change price based on the temperature rising outside. We don't do stuff like that. We never have.

      Just wait until greed says it is a good idea. "Never have, never will" is utter bullshit... except maybe for 7-up and caffeine... but greed has not investigated that yet.
      • Re: (Score:2)

        by sarren1901 ( 5415506 ) writes:

        The pepsi CEO floated the idea of vending machines where the price changed based on temperature outside. Yeah, that got fierce push back and never happened.

        Unless you are in a food desert or the middle of no where with no choice where to shop, there is way to much competition in the retail space selling food to pull tactics like this. People will just go across the street or down the block a couple miles and not deal with that.

        Really though, as long as it's disclosed ahead of time that prices changed throug

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