• SaniFlush [any, any]@hexbear.net
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    3 months ago

    Thankfully, Wal-Mart is too fricking cheap to permanently implement something like that. They can’t even keep a stack of handbaskets by the door without all of them getting stolen within a month and take years to replace them, electronic price tags are getting broken and unusable near instantly.

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      3 months ago

      You can break the shelf tag, or it can get broken through use and just never be replaced but it won’t change that the POS system will constantly have its prices at the register (potentially) changed daily/hourly.

      A question that might be important though, “Do customers shop based on the price they see on the shelf?” If I want a bag of apples and there isn’t a price tag near enough to the bag of apples that I can tell how much the bag of apples cost, will I still try to buy a bag of apples?

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    3 months ago

    Amazing they didn’t do that earlier. In Rio de Janeiro there’s a vegetables store chain that use that since years ago.

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          3 months ago

          Some day all people with shower with electric heaters connected directly to solar panels. For now, we can only pity them (my energy come from hydro I guess, so it’s water being heated by otther water))

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      3 months ago

      some brands of coke machines have had surge pricing ability for at least 30 years. I was told it was usually used to raise prices in between class periods in school machines but none of the ones I ever programmed used the feature just flat rates.

  • EmoThugInMyPhase [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    3 months ago

    Conservatives when no one takes their guns: “I WILL NOT COMPLY!!!”

    Conservatives when food prices increase: “I’m going go keep rewarding these companies and then complain when someone rebels”