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Lidl has had them for ages and they seem buggy as hell because there are always blank or corrupted ones every week.
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ALDI have at it for years.
My wife didn't believe me when I said I saw one of them change and about 4 weeks later she saw one.
I then got a staff member changing one in front of us.
I make it my weekly ALDI game to try and spot one changing, probably one in every 10 visits.
I think the Red ones are done from a main ALDI base and the normal ones can be done by the store staff, or the other way around.
In ALDI I've had it done in front of me by a staff member.
You can walk around ALDI and see the occasional one change.
My wife didn't believe me when I said I saw one of them change and about 4 weeks later she saw one.
I then got a staff member changing one in front of us.
I make it my weekly ALDI game to try and spot one changing, probably one in every 10 visits.
I think the Red ones are done from a main ALDI base and the normal ones can be done by the store staff, or the other way around.
In ALDI I've had it done in front of me by a staff member.
You can walk around ALDI and see the occasional one change.
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so its not a conspiracy the prices do change?
Of course prices can change, just the same as paper based prices are occasionally changed. It's not some mass demand based pricing though
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Yes 100%.
In fact one we saw changing was something we bought and it went to a lower price.
I'm sure I made a thread on this several years ago.
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Electronic shelf labels have been around for years, I was heavily involved in a pilot 10-12 years, which was one of the first in the UK. Dynamic pricing has been trialled by Marks and Spencer circa 2015 in a central London Store, albeit for a very short period of time around the bakery items. Ultimately the fact its no longer tells you all you need to know.
ESL's main benefits are reduce pricing errors (See Sweden for incorrect pricing fines), environmental and reduce staff wages. Challenges are the expected life span of the battery and liquid dye, along with initial outlay. In some high end airport shops they do some cool things with in them as well.
Its been at least 3 years since I have looked at them, so some the challenges may have been resolved
A while back going into the store there was a stack of booze £12 down from £17 and went through the till at £17 by the time we'd completed our shop.
Went back to the display and it was showing £17. Thought I was going nuts until a couple of other shoppers said the same thing. They had whipped off the discounted price and it was back to showing full price.
A bit of a joint moan at CS and they honoured the discounted price.
Not sure they legally had to but it's a bit underhanded. I expect a few other shoppers got caught out by not realising.
If they're going to sell at a discount, at least give a date (and time even) when it's going to end.
Of course the reverse could be true, where you stick it in your trolly at a higher price and get charged the lower.
Went back to the display and it was showing £17. Thought I was going nuts until a couple of other shoppers said the same thing. They had whipped off the discounted price and it was back to showing full price.
A bit of a joint moan at CS and they honoured the discounted price.
Not sure they legally had to but it's a bit underhanded. I expect a few other shoppers got caught out by not realising.
If they're going to sell at a discount, at least give a date (and time even) when it's going to end.
Of course the reverse could be true, where you stick it in your trolly at a higher price and get charged the lower.
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I'd love to know the retailer in question, as this is one of the first requirements raised/highlighted even back in 2015
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I was under the impression, most Swedish supermarkets had them due to pricing error fines I mentioned earlier. Assuming your location is accurate
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Or for clued up customers who refuse to pay the extra, the store will need those staff that used to be paid to change non-digital pricetags, to get that food (especially temperature sensitive foods) back on the shelf pronto.
Doing the prices sucked at my old job - a boring long slog and the jobs never being finished and old prices still being on the shelf. Good that they have these now, though all prices need to be online also for transparency in my opinion.
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£100 for bog roll next pandemic
Oh ok I never read it or even knew about that..
I'll have a little research.Out of the 4 chains in my town only 1 has this so, if it's regulatory, no one adheres.
The offer to sell is at checkout not at shelves. Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain v Boots Cash Chemists (Southern) Ltd
The only case I remember from Business Law.
Yeah but there's a few barriers to that, there's only one unrealistic barrier in having a body cam to capture it happening here. Even 1p across billions of items is frankly unnoticeable for the average pleb, but very noticeable for the profit at all costs investors. If they're ever caught out it will be after they've made huge amounts of money and they can just blame a computer glitch... 'oopsies'.
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but is it a double edged sword, if staff are no longer altering price labels, does that mean they also spend less time checking the dates on products.
it's probably something they would have done at the same time, so expect more expired best by dates in your basket.
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