Its weird how they keep breaking and they have to keep replacing them.
Interesting, in my area they keep disappearing instead of breaking.
On a completely unrelated note I have a fancy £50000 puzzle on my fridge right now.
How the fuck would surveillance based pricing work in real life. Prices would have to change every time a different person looked at it. Can you imagine the chaos at the self scan checkouts when the pricing flashes up wrong on every item you bought. Most people would just leave
There’s already in-store camera based tracking and ID of customers. Takes very little effort to send that ID to the PoS to use your personal pricing at checkout…
It never stops being funny how the US is always 10-20-30 years late with most things and it’s always done in the worst way possible. We’ve had these for many years here in Sweden and have none of these issues. All I’ve heard from friends who work at grocery stores is that they’re better and takes less work to change, giving more time for other things.
The reason is labor is cheaper. The people who put up signage in shops get paid close to minimum wage and get restricted hours under 35 so corporate doesn’t have to pay for benefits like healthcare. So the only incentive for changing to electonic tags is being able to charge customers more.
But where will they hide when the revolution comes?
