I’ve already sent feedback to Walmart about my refusal to buy anything with a digital price tag. The thing is, I believe them when they say that prices are only updated between 1:00 and 2:00 a.m. The problem is that that policy could change literally any time.
Walmart has every inch of their store covered in cameras. They have facial recognition systems so they know who I am the moment I walk in the store. They know I buy graham crackers. They know I’ve put up with price increases in the past. What is preventing them from adding $0.10 to those graham crackers’ price tag the moment I walk down the crackers aisle? Literally nothing. They could, and that’s reason enough for me to boycott
If they want to do dynamic pricing, maybe we’ll just have to start dynamic shopping.
It’s weird, the higher the prices get, the worse my memory and aptitude with self service checkouts gets.
these gonna get hacked…
I will buy that for a dollar. (no really lettuce for a $1 is worth the hack)
My local store can not even get a reliable source of staple foods (the distributor often shorts them milk, meat or whatever), there is no way this:
A) Works
B) Is adopted by any non large store
C) Is accepted as anything but a hated cash grab
I’ve already seen them in several stores near me, including Walmart. The entire store was switched over to them.
What’s the common way for updating these? I have some similar devices that use Wi-Fi but local stores seem to use some sort of nearby transmitter pointex towards the shelves, maybe infrared/optical
It will probably be wifi and mqtt. You don’t need a whole OS to get mqtt, just a TCP/IP stack.
Possibly it will use BTLE or BT5. If the store is large enough it might make sense for staff to go around with android app and manually update some prices, in which case BT5 in SPP mode might make sense.
probably they set certain times of day where there will be surge pricing, like around 12-1pm where more people come in for lunch, and around 4-5pmish where people off work.
If this happens, I will absolutely try to figure out how to game it
Bring items to self checkout. Scans as fast as possible. Walks out with a 20% dynamic discount.
Or they could charge a customer more if they know the customer always buys the same product.
How so they propose changing an e-ink shelf label per customer??
Probably more timed towards certain times and demographics, but yeah it just takes a couple seconds to update and there are plenty of customers running “loyalty points apps”
remember if you see someone shoplifting food no the fuck you didnt
Especially if you work there.
Great, I have a very bad feeling about this, given the possible crisis of 2026.
It is morally correct to shoplift from stores that do this.
I’m going to start dynamic payments. “Oh, between 6-9pm I pay 10% less.”
Portland banned it for housing. Time to ban it for everything else!
Already here in Canada.
Free epaper displays!
Man would really suck if internet cuts out to get updates when its at the lowest prices…
