Walmart to replace paper price tags with digital screens

Thousands of Walmart stores are about to receive a major technological upgrade.

Chip Yost reports for the KTLA 5 Morning News on June 7, 2024.

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[thedrunkweddingphotographer]

Oh great. If you see 1.99 on the digital label and get scanned 5.99 at checkout, you then say you saw 1.99, and lo and behold, digital price label now says 5.99.

[ahr]

Get ready for "surge pricing" at Walmart 🤬

[Ros-co]

Now they can raise prices at peak times.

[demometalico]

Lwts wait till people begin to steal those tags too 😂

[KumaVerse]

Add more cashiers and people to open the locked items since employees don't need to walking around the store changing labels. Walmart makes so much money but theres never enough cashiers.

[EshaanR]

Next walmart will introduce surge pricing.

[LoneWulff]

Do you know how long it takes us to do these? Imagine having 400 price changes for a single department only to get finished and see 100 more by the time you finish. This is why you get prices that sometimes are not right, because people miss or skip them trying to get them done. This is just going to mean you won't see as many mistakes. They aren't going to surge price, that's not how it works. It still has to have an employee activate them which is not something we do just on a whim it just part of something we do in our weekly cycle. If anything it means items that get marked down for clearance will do so much faster as that's what we usually do last.

[cbusll]

more efficient = hiring less employees XD

[Thadopeera]

They are trying to prevent tag switching theft. A very popular method these days

[parislove]

Walmart, WHAT is the EXACT purpose of this ??? 👹👺👹

[yvdtjel]

This is going to open Walmart to more hacking.

[John-bsug]

I've seen these in Aldi and I hate them. If you look at them from a distance or at the wrong angle, all you see is a glare from the LED lights in the store. Plus when anything heavy falls on them or a cart bumps into one of them, they break. And if something is on sale or clearance, you can't peel back the sale price tag to see what the original price really was. Walmart loves to say something is on "Rollback" even when it was always that price.

[alanpyropyro]

Oh yea I was at Walmart yesterday and I completely forgot they do not accept Tap Pay like Google Pay neither apple pay so maybe upgrade that first .

[pinoygal]

Real time pricing?
-Sounds like they can't predict how bad Bidenomics will get.

[jonathanbelanger]

10 year old technology, finally catching up are we

[BlenderGamerFreaq]

lol, these are standard in most European countries and have been for years.

[jayjacobson]

Walmart Making so much money they can't afford to pay employees living wages or reducing any prices.
Corporate greed.

[grateful.]

They must be planning for hyper inflation 😢

[TarumpSadiki]

I can already picture those screens being all scribed on 😂

[davidhenderson]

Going to be a lot of people taking pictures of price tags at Walmart when they buy stuff.