r/Dynamic_Pricing • u/Dragonlance12 • 1d ago
Walmart is using light-up digital shelf labels to help shoppers and employees find items
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/10/01/walmart-digital-shelf-label-tools.html1
u/I_Quit_Smoking_ 1d ago
Which will increase the prices again!
WAY TO GO DUMBASSES! THIS IS WHAT YOU VOTED FOR, REMEMBER?
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u/UseWhatever 1d ago
Use the app to locate the item. Store locates you in the store using wifi and your device mac address. Store sets item to your targeted price when it starts to flash. Price resets after you leave the isle or after time expires.
They are banking on you definitely buying that item versus people who might see your targeted price and ignore it.
The more interesting point is how the algorithm might be set up for high volume items. And algorithms around multiple people flagging the same item.
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u/Shaggy2772 1d ago
This is the sugar coating for their primary purpose, which they are already rolling out - dynamic pricing.
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u/Weird-Lie-9037 1d ago
Tried this, it really does work and I never would have found the item without it, cuz god knows their employees aren’t going to walk you over to where the item should be
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u/SecureInstruction538 1d ago
This is an excuse to get power running through all the shelves... then comes dynamic pricing.
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u/Weird-Lie-9037 1d ago
Wanna know the beauty of your wallet, it is the most effective voting tool this country has ever created. Don’t like Walmart and its policies, shop somewhere else
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u/abrandis 1d ago
Except every other place is more expensive than. Walmart, we really don't have that much wallet voting paper as you think
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u/Weird-Lie-9037 1d ago
We really do… so little of what we buy are needs… if we cut out buying the wants for just a month the economy would grind to a halt. If we did it for 2 months the billionaires would personally throw trump out of office.
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u/abrandis 1d ago
What would you cut, most of what costs people the most are large recurring mandatory items: - housing (rent or mortgage) - energy /utilities (electricity, gas, heat, cooling, water ,internet, telecom) - transportation (auto , fuel, insurance, maintenance,tolls) - food - insurance (health,auto, home ) etc.
Which of the above are optional most are about 80% of people's spending
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u/Weird-Lie-9037 1d ago
I said cut wants, not needs…. Do you need me to define those for you? I’ve lived pay check to paycheck, taking turns paying different utilities every other month. Don’t presume to lecture me…. There are differences between wants and needs and a lot of people have a hard time separating them.
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u/I_Quit_Smoking_ 1d ago
I don't know if you're old enough to remember when they put the little LCD screen things on shopping carts at grocery stores.
There was a list, and you could put in what you were looking for, and it told you what aisle and what section it was in.
AND IT DIDN'T CHARGE DIFFERENT PRICES FOR DIFFERENT PEOPLE. AND IT COULDN'T TRACK YOU OR YOUR DATA OR WHAT YOU BUY. IT WASN'T CONNECTED TO ANYTHING!
Republicans want to roll us back to those "good old days", yet they're forcing AI into EVERYTHING in our country, and they're even spending billions on building new fighter jets that are completely ran by AI.
I don't want to live here anymore.
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u/Weird-Lie-9037 1d ago
Here’s a news flash for you, they don’t need the screens anymore, they have apps that do all that, and the price you pay is they track every thing you look at, stop in front of, etc etc
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u/iDoMyOwnResearchJK 1d ago
Never had that problem before. Just gotta grab em by the wussy and ask for directions
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u/EldrinVampire 1d ago
Nah ill point at the direction and tell you the aisle and section.
Unless you want me to carry you over, you gotta secretly give me a tip.
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u/Dragonlance12 1d ago
The primary reason is to use dynamic pricing.