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I wish they would allow the digital price tags and just make it so prices can only be changed once per day. Why is that not the obvious solution?
It's still easy and tempting to change the price frequently with a digital tag, even without surveillance on individuals. Without a third-party audit that keeps track of the price, you have no way of knowing whether a price has been changed unfairly. Paper sucks but it introduces friction.
What makes that better than regular fixed prices?
You can allow the labor saving aspect of digital price tags without allowing the price-gouging bullshit of variable pricing.
Changing sku tags, doing markdowns and markups etc, are some of the more pain in the ass tasks in a big box store, or any store for that matter. Automating that wouldnt be such a bad thing, so long as it doesnt also allow variable pricing bs
I see. I never realized how tedious moving the price tags around would be, but that makes sense.
Just for perspective, a store like walmart can have several hundred items that need to be changed within a day. That means someone that would usually have something better to do has to spend an entire shift going around farting with little paper tags. It's a massive waste of time and a task that nobody wants to do.