A months-long investigation by More Perfect Union, Consumer Reports, and Groundwork Collaborative found that major grocery retailers and tech companies are
Most shops around me use eInk. Those tags probably cannot be used that way. They take a good minute to fully refresh.
Sometimes you’ll just see them flickering opposite colors.
And there’s also the problem of applying this correctly at the checkout. Though perhaps you can get away with a lot of “mistakes”. The price tags in nearby BILLA in the pastry section are like… 5% accurate if you actually check the price tags. That is, if any are there in the first place.
Last time I went by the price tags by position I ended up checking out pistachio croissants as nougat ones. Screw it, that’s the price that was indicated. Then I just stopped taking items that didn’t match the text (pastry)/EAN (regular goods) on price tags (which I thought I wouldn’t need to check - like in every other shop where they are correctly placed), and would you look at that, barely anything is eligible.
But I mostly stopped going there now. Random price tags, outdated price tags, price tags with actual price in ~2mm font that barely renders on the display sometimes with the member price in big bold, rotting and moldy fruit.
Most shops around me use eInk. Those tags probably cannot be used that way. They take a good minute to fully refresh.
Sometimes you’ll just see them flickering opposite colors.
And there’s also the problem of applying this correctly at the checkout. Though perhaps you can get away with a lot of “mistakes”. The price tags in nearby BILLA in the pastry section are like… 5% accurate if you actually check the price tags. That is, if any are there in the first place.
Last time I went by the price tags by position I ended up checking out pistachio croissants as nougat ones. Screw it, that’s the price that was indicated. Then I just stopped taking items that didn’t match the text (pastry)/EAN (regular goods) on price tags (which I thought I wouldn’t need to check - like in every other shop where they are correctly placed), and would you look at that, barely anything is eligible.
But I mostly stopped going there now. Random price tags, outdated price tags, price tags with actual price in ~2mm font that barely renders on the display sometimes with the member price in big bold, rotting and moldy fruit.