How would it work if the price changed between getting the item off the shelf and paying for it? Will I have to take a picture of every price tag in case the price goes up?
(In Germany) The legal purchase agreement is made at the register, which means you agree to those prices. The prices on the shelves are technically irrelevant, although if they are intentionally falsified you could sue for deceit or false advertising.
Which is why almost all stores will honour the prices on the shelves, even if they’re wrong, and also it’s just cheaper to adjust the price than to argue with customers ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
afaik there was somewhere that was suggesting having these labels adjust with who was in front of the item: track you through the store, link that to their internal profile of you, charge more if they think you can afford it/figure your susceptible to certain sales/etc
Wow that’s crazy. I can’t believe they’re doing this without telling the market or regional teams. They haven’t even told store managers about the individual pricing!
Because it’s not a thing. The digital price signage is so they don’t have to change individual labels on the thousands of items in the store, saving a huge amount of tedious labor.
Source: married to a store manager.
Just had her proof read this for accuracy and she pointed out that the digital prices can be changed from the office and price changes drop on Monday but still require someone to push them to the shelves. It is possible someone observed a price update while they were looking at the shelf, or this is just wild speculation.
Should be a law that they can only set the price at the start of the business day with an exception for perishable goods marked down before they go bad, where the fresher ones are still regular price.
You can only lower the price while the store is open for business. Any price hikes must be done between business hours. 24 hour stores can raise prices once per day during off-peak hours or something.
Currently they release new prices on Monday, on a weekly basis, and they’re changed by hand throughout the day. The non-digital signage with last week’s prices can still be up while you’re shopping but at the register items will ring in with the new price.
If that happens they will honor the price on the shelf as long as the UPCs match (people move those price signs all the time, on accident and on purpose).
I understand the corporate bad evil company stance but in this instance people are reaching conclusions based entirely on wild speculation.
How would it work if the price changed between getting the item off the shelf and paying for it? Will I have to take a picture of every price tag in case the price goes up?
(In Germany) The legal purchase agreement is made at the register, which means you agree to those prices. The prices on the shelves are technically irrelevant, although if they are intentionally falsified you could sue for deceit or false advertising.
Which is why almost all stores will honour the prices on the shelves, even if they’re wrong, and also it’s just cheaper to adjust the price than to argue with customers ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Ideally they should keep prices locked for 24 hours between changes
afaik there was somewhere that was suggesting having these labels adjust with who was in front of the item: track you through the store, link that to their internal profile of you, charge more if they think you can afford it/figure your susceptible to certain sales/etc
Wow that’s crazy. I can’t believe they’re doing this without telling the market or regional teams. They haven’t even told store managers about the individual pricing!
Because it’s not a thing. The digital price signage is so they don’t have to change individual labels on the thousands of items in the store, saving a huge amount of tedious labor.
Source: married to a store manager.
Just had her proof read this for accuracy and she pointed out that the digital prices can be changed from the office and price changes drop on Monday but still require someone to push them to the shelves. It is possible someone observed a price update while they were looking at the shelf, or this is just wild speculation.
Should be a law that they can only set the price at the start of the business day with an exception for perishable goods marked down before they go bad, where the fresher ones are still regular price.
You can only lower the price while the store is open for business. Any price hikes must be done between business hours. 24 hour stores can raise prices once per day during off-peak hours or something.
Edit: replied to the wrong comment, moved to where this one belonged.
Hahahahaha
Great joke!
Why?
Currently they release new prices on Monday, on a weekly basis, and they’re changed by hand throughout the day. The non-digital signage with last week’s prices can still be up while you’re shopping but at the register items will ring in with the new price.
If that happens they will honor the price on the shelf as long as the UPCs match (people move those price signs all the time, on accident and on purpose).
I understand the corporate bad evil company stance but in this instance people are reaching conclusions based entirely on wild speculation.