"Walmart is switching to electronic price tags that “allow employees to change prices as often as every ten seconds”.
No one wants this!! No one wants surge pricing on ice cream and price increases on items already in your cart."
The idea that something in my cart could change price before it got to the checkout strikes me as fraud.
In an online cart, I'd get a notification that this happened before I checked out. But in real life, no way to do that.
https://kottke.org/24/06/0044848-walmart-is-switching-to-e
Dave Mark /
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2024-06-25 13:04:31
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