But you don’t carry the sign with you. It stays at the shelf. Sure, they could build a system that tracks you everywhere in the store and marks what price they showed you and tells the register what price to display when you check out. They’ll try all that, but this won’t do it yet.
Yeah, I’m not actually that worried. I’ve seen these in use at hardware stores for quite a while now. It’s just useful to assume that Walmart is planning to fuck you over. That’s a good point with BT though, many of the kind of microcontrollers that would be used for this sort of thing offer BT connectivity as well.
As long as you have a free market and not a coordinated one it will work out great for you guys too
Ah, so we’re fucked
There’s not really a way to do that with this technology. These are just price tags on the shelf, so if they changed the price it would change it for everyone in the store.
I periodically stumble across Joel’s blog and it blows my mind how relevant it typically is.
Holy shit, they really buried the lede with that headline. For sure, throw away the key.
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I’m glad the new owners decided to increase rodent pest control, leading to less food for stray cats to eat in the area.