Electronic price tags are popping up in Canadian grocery stores. Here’s what it means for customers

@wise_pancake@lemmy.ca

I used to work nights at a Loblaws grocery store

Thursday was price update day and I would spend the whole shift printing stacks of paper labels then walk the aisles updating them.

The digital tags would save a lot of money and paper.

@GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca

And im perfectly fine with this use case. I’m not impressed with the idea of changing prices from day to day, and certainly not throughout the day.

@wise_pancake@lemmy.ca

I am too.

As long as they’re held to a maximum frequency of updates this tech is net positive.

With fliers that would be true because there’s just one weekly price per location.