>local grocery store switched to this IoT digital price tag things probably to do evil shit>annoying to look at becsuse the resolution isn't very high >also people bang into them and they look like pic related which wasn't a problem beforeI hate the overuse of technology so much its unreal
The prices of the products you buy go up by 20% when their cameras detect you going by, and lower by 20% if you've never bought it before,
>>110119452I keep things like this is mind when I'm shopping. If i think something is too high priced that i used to buy, I'll grab it and stare at it for a while and then put it back. I have left with absolutely nothing before as well
>>110119452which one of the two prices wins if two strangers happen to come by at the same time?
>>110119452How can they tell I'm not a real horse?
>>110119452Personalized pricing isn't really viable as long as retail has price tags like that.>>110119479schizo behavior>>110119530this, also people would record the price flipping in realtime on them on day one and they'll have a consumer backlash.This is why they want to kill retail altogether as delivery apps already do it.
>>110119378>>also people bang into them and they look like pic related which wasn't a problem beforekino cyberpunk aesthetic though
>>110119378these are IR controlled (little hole on the right), not sure if they communicate wirelessly at allImagine the effort the clerks go through swapping out all the tags when changing the weekly offersthese save a lot of hassle
>>110119378>no gmodropped
A reminder that the variable pricing technology that companies are currently working on is designed to push more people from middle class down into the lower class while the upper class are largely unaffected (they have more money than they need already).If you are poor, you'll just pay the normal price.If you are somewhat well off, you'll pay more and the added costs of everything will push you down.If you are rich, you will pay more but you are already set. Even if you're paying more it isn't proportionally so high as to meaningfully affect you.Variable pricing isn't going to fuck over the poor people, it will fuck everyone in the middle.
>>110119452They cannot actually do that retard-kun.
>>110119690>This is why they want to kill retail altogether as delivery apps already do it.Apps make it harder (not third party delivery). Big grocery stores in my country have apps and websites. The prices must match in store prices or they are breaking the law. Delivery too (only the grocers third party delivery can do whatever they want).>but howThe grocers charge an extremely high delivery fee no matter what you order to encourage weekly delivery rather than spot purchases.
>>110119980Just to add I the retardation knows no bounds.>leftist talking point channel>LOOK HOW MUCH THIS COSTS DIFFERENT PEOPLE ON THE APPDid you try going to the grocery stores website? Or using their own app?>NOFucking idiots.
>>110119452That's illegal in the US for anything that can be purchased with food stamps. The law states that stores that accept food stamps, which is pretty much all of them, must charge the same price to everyone. They can't even charge food stamp users less while fucking over everyone else. For things that can't be bought with food stamps, like hot chicken, they could in theory do personalized pricing but there's so many things that can go wrong with that for it to not be worth bothering with.
>>110119378It's a big inconvenience in retail to update tags every week/every sale. Then something gets mislabeled and you then have hundreds of complaints at customer service. These things are pretty convenient.Dynamic pricing isn't really a thing yet as most grocers do a weekly flyer still and many places have laws about changing advertised prices.
>>110121401I used to werk in one of these bigger chain stores in my country, some days the whole ass section would refresh and flash early in the morning. Shit was definitely shady af.
>>110119980>>110119986>I'm gonna post cope on reported facts because I my idpol bullshit conflicts with their idpol bullshit>Just to add I the retardation knows no bounds.Yeah...
>>110121401Yep gotta keep up with runaway inflation lmao
>>110119378>people thinking the shelf tag has any control over what the price will be at the registersurveillance pricing is absolutely real, but these tags have nothing to do with it.
>>110119378>>110119452This is definitely happening now, the hole on top-right is for a camera
>>110121926Looks like a led or ambient light sensor though. You can see the die sections through the lens.A camera would look fully black.
>>110119378i fucking hate those things. thankfully my local grocer is still civilized.
>>110121926Might be a good time to invest in one of these
>>110122005Yes the sheniqua mask where you don't have to pay at all and live off of EBT
>>110122005>deleted
>>110119378It's better than this most useless garbage.
>>110119452>>110119964Walmart is the first retailer who did a wide rollout of these and they already got busted fucking with prices on the fly so they're one number on the shelf but a different number at the register and hope you don't notice
>>110122056but sometimes the items on the screen bounce and dance!
>>110119452meds now
>>110119452Anon these have literally no IoT connections, they are e-ink displays you need to be close proximity to and tap like NFC to set the price+info.I'm all against dynamic pricing and other BS but this is just stupid. You can literally buy these things off amazon and deconstruct them seeing they have no way to do what you say
>>110122141Good effort, but you're talking to people who think LED lightbulbs emit mind control rays to make you sad and depressed because they're not the incandescent bulbs people used 40 years ago.
>>110122330Narrow spectrum light and PWM absolutely do fuck with people's moods you well-poisoning longnose.
>overuseNo, that's good. Especially, if your country have hyperinflation these become really savior.>>also people bang into themJust government should give punishment to the bastards.>>annoying to look at becsuse the resolution isn't very highNo, resolution is good. Your eye is bad.A market in my country have these things too and I don't even understand. I thought we're currently using paper price tag haha
>schizo arrives to prove my point immediatelyExactly as I said. The same schizos who sperg about lightbulbs are going to thing retarded eink price tags somehow have the ability to real-time change prices while scanning (You).
>>110122481It is theoretically feasible but not practical in application. If it were to happen somewhere it would likely be a store with low average foot traffic and likely involving women's clothes or cosmetics.
>>110122067You can do that with regular labels too, its illegal in both cases
>>110122056This is legit retarded, but digital price tags do make some sense, I can see how not needing to manually update and manage tags could save on quite a bit of work while also reducing errors.
>>110122611Explain how a low power battery operated e-ink display magically has the power storage and processing power to scan, match biometrics, and adjust prices.
>>110122951If the current stock is near field you could run it as personalized deals where people use the vendor app near the tag. But the tech is going to progress and things are low power enough that needed hardware could feasibly be built into fixtures.
>>110119452>>110121926Ah you're the sperg that made the /ck/ bait thread and was BTFO in it
>>110122951how do you think they change what's displayed at all
>>110119452Give it five more years and this post won't be schizo.
>>110123369The tech will but there are some legal barriers that would need to be overcome for grocery stores to do it. Think there was even some legal blowback in some places over fast food surge pricing.
>>110121401Right, but then idiots knock off and break all of the tags and no one wants to replace them so what really happens is you end up with a graveyard of tags at the bottom of a modular and no pricing info.Either that or the stockers get supremely lazy and just plug merchandise without updating the tag, or a UPC changes due to a package redesign and they slave it to the tag without changing the master UPC so they don't match and it becomes a Schroedinger's tag. You don't know whether it will work until you try to scan it.
>>110119452good luck getting away with that. i already avoid all stores that attempt to trick me with multiple price tags and "savings" cards. the moment i get a whiff of jewish tricks I walk the fuck away.
>>110119378I have few of these sitting in a drawer. Didn't even disassembled them yet. It just show some numbers now, I masked it so nobody can tell where I "found" them.
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>>110119378The prices on the shelves aren't even indicative of the actual price you have to pay.
>>110119378These have been around for like a decade.
these things break constantly
>>110122056>>110122825What's bad about it?Seems super easy to read and the doors save a shitload of energy.
what do store wagies even do any moreit's a great gig now you get paid to do nothing -customer self checkouts-prices update themselves-bots clean the floors-soon robots will place all the items on shelvesthe only they do now is fill up bags (full of the wrong items) for deliveries
>>110123714lel
>>110122141>they are e-ink displays you need to be close proximity to and tap like NFC to set the price+infoHow is this more convenient than swapping a paper sticker
>>110122056The kino part is the company that owns the screens turning them off and demanding a ransom for them to turn on again
>>110123702Ameritards are way behind the times, they still think they have as much influence as they did in the 80s
>>110119378You have no idea how much price stickers cost, this is actually simpler and better
>>110123714How does embedding a screen in a door save energy compared to just making a transparent door so you can see inside directly? Is the insulation in the literal screen door way better because it doesn't need to be transparent, or what? Doesn't sound super likely to me, the screen itself is going to use power constantly and thus generate heat, then some of that heat surely leaks into the fridge, which then needs to work a little bit harder to maintain its set temperature.
>>110119452Mhm the reason for the entrance gate is to get a id scan, in some places it wont open until the max timeout is reached until i raise the brow of my bicycle helmet. Notice how the cameras are positioned in every isle to see what your userid is going for, they will bump the prices on you in realtime, so its not vad advise to literally shadow an immigrant about the store. They have a list of all the items you picked but still make you scan them at self checkout as a humiliation ritual bullshit test. This is why rounding up for charity is not an option, it purchases social credit.I will visit 5 or 6 grocery stores to find the one with the least electronic tags, this shit is so bs
>>110123786i guess the idea is that the lights in the fridge can be off when it's not open, like your fridge at home, but i find it unlikely those lights use less power than the screensbut maybe my instinct is off
>>110119378They do this so they can have dynamic pricing based on how many people linger at a given product. Truly evil shit.
>>110123938Yeah if the screen is bright enough to be easily visible it's going to be using more power than a light in the fridge. LCD screens aren't perfectly transparent so you lose brightness just by going through the LCD layer too, plus nowadays LED lights are quite efficient. You could light up a fridge with a few W of power, no way a screen that big uses that little power.
>>110123786I meant compared to a fridge without a door.Supermarkets trying to sell you a cold drink will often not use doors on their fridges because doors tend to fog over and make it hard to look inside.
>>110119452That is a conspiracy that has no basis in reality. With a shop full of people its impossible. Also, you can see price tags from across the store, them changing constantly will be noticed. Dynamic pricing is a real thing, but it won't be done through price tags, it will be done through discounts and special offers and reward points.
>>110119378Digital labels are fine if they are not trash. We have had them in the UK for years at this point. None of ours look like that piece of junk, they are actually good.
they use these in europe and asia all the time and have done for years alreadyif anything nothing at all changed or they've led to more promotions but of course in the united states you are right to assume it will be used in the most evil way because it definitely will
>>110122056The solution is to pay crack heads to smash them.
