this post was submitted on 19 Jun 2024
121 points (90.1% liked)

Technology

59421 readers
4793 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related content.
  3. Be excellent to each another!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed

Approved Bots

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
121
A supermarket trip may soon look different, thanks to electronic shelf labels (www.npr.org)
submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
83 comments fedilink hide all child comments
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 68 points 5 months ago (2 children)

We're gonna need some new regulations that require all price labels to have a date/time of last change so we know when they changed the prices.

[–] [email protected] 62 points 5 months ago (1 children)

There is a rule for gas stations that prices can only be changed once a day. Sounds like that would be a good start.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 5 months ago

100% this. It would also prevent them from changing prices based on predictive analytics of the individual customer standing in front of the label — they will do this sooner or later, I guarantee it.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I'd love an NFC tag embedded in them that I could scan and see X weeks/months of history! But that level of transparency would only ever happen with regulation, and in my country (Canada) the grocer oligarchs own the politicians these days...