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A supermarket trip may soon look different, thanks to electronic shelf labels (www.npr.org)
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Grocery store prices are changing faster than ever before — literally. This month, Walmart became the latest retailer to announce it’s replacing the price stickers in its aisles with electronic shelf labels. The new labels allow employees to change prices as often as every ten seconds.

“If it’s hot outside, we can raise the price of water and ice cream. If there's something that’s close to the expiration date, we can lower the price — that’s the good news,” said Phil Lempert, a grocery industry analyst.

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[–] CrypticCoffee@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Separate point, but are beehaw now not defederated from the world? When did this happen?

[–] blindsight@beehaw.org 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Beehaw never defederated with lemmy.ml. Most notably, Beehaw defederated from Lemmy.world which is one of the main reasons I'm happy to stay here. If Beehaw moves away from Lemmy, I'll definitely need to find another instance that's defederated with Lemmy.world.

[–] CrypticCoffee@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 months ago

Ah interesting. Appreciate the clarification. Not seen much from Beehaw in a while.

Lemmy.world has a higher percentage of questionable users for sure.