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 News at Noon on June 7, 2024.

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[kisnhug]

It makes it easy to change😢 prices daily 😢

[superdave]

The cost of all that stuff will be added to your bill.

[mrz]

Hackers will be able to figure out how to lower those prices in no time 🤔🤔🤔☮️

[emacflores]

Dont shop there. We hold the power to keep them in business. Remember that they don’t own us. We keep them in business.😊

[vulcan]

Pick something up for $3.98 ... get to the check out 5 minutes later and it's now $5.98, this is not gonna work out well.

[DrSleep-epcw]

it doesn't matter to a thief, he laughs at both the paper price tag and digital price tag. 😲

[matthewwiederspan]

Corporations: We can’t afford to pay our workers better wages.

Also corporations: Ooh new digital screens!

[joblow]

So they can push a button and change pricing randomly like kohl’s

[orlandorocha]

it should be worth mentioning that the employees will lose their work over these digital screens.

[johnv]

When it rains umbrellas double in price. When it's sunny and hot pools and ice cream will go up 20%. It will get worse because it can be programed to increase the price when it hits a high demand of any product. Think about when TP was selling out, and now imagine them jacking up the price once their systems notice a lot of people buying them. Trying to buy groceries on a budget will be very hard from week to week.

[hng_stuff]

Kohl’s been using the digital price tags for years

[mybedroomtv]

this is so people can't remove the sticker and see the fake discount and employees won't notice and make a tiktok about it either

[bobbyflores]

these stores are going to be charging the MAX prices, able to change them at the push of a button any time of day... all bad!

[stephanieyvonne]

At least they won’t the excuse of forgetting to change the price tags. I’ve bought a few things that rang up higher than I was expecting it too when I go to checkout. When I ask why I’m always told that the old price tags haven’t been updated.

[YAZZYUTUBE]

Kohls has been using this for many years. There is no controversy to the digital signs. If Walmart wants to change prices regularly it can and has been done with the paper signs. An associate just prints out a new price walks over and replaces the old sign with the new one. There is nothing sinister by going from paper to digital.

[babayaga]

And the next TikTok challenge will be how many screens can you smash or steal....great idea!

[puppyandkittygames]

I walked by and knocked the whole price bar down at walmart yesterday, oops. Hope I didn't break it

[RideRedRacer]

i gave up on walmart like 10 years ago... come on people. that place is the worst

[rhizopus]

Guys the netherlands already does this for all their products in grocery stores. There's nothing wrong with digital signs. Everything will be ok. Chilll

[WhiteNoiseStudio]

As a Walmart associate, I can't wait for this! Also, all the complaints I see here still happen with paper labels! If you get an item just before I do a price change it will ring up the new price etc. Also the lady @ 2:20 the online thing happens daily as well. had a customer yesterday wanting an item she saw online that's $5 cheaper and we DO NOT match it, they have to order it for pickup to get the price.