Most Americans want digital shelf labels and surveillance pricing banned

[Endymio]

Oops! Your references to economics are strawmen. Never, in the history of commerce, has any retailer been able to change pricing as quickly as they now can with digital pricing.

You couldn't possibly be more wrong. Since the dawn of commerce, nearly all prices were kept in the head of the vendor making the sale, who quoted a price to each individual customer separately.

Your point is doubly wrong, since eCommerce has existed for several decades now, 100% of which has digital pricing ... and yet those prices invariably average lower than those retailers using printed tags.

And I don't GAS about what you say about Amazon. IMO, they are not worth my business. Amazon profits because people continue to use them and accept that they are in the business of delivering products they sell at the least possible cost

Translation: "don't confuse me with facts; my mind is made up." I never suggested Amazon is *always* cheaper than all other sources. But e-Commerce sites in general average lower prices than the "non-digital pricing" of printed tags. Period.

 

[BobHome]

Good god, is economics a lost art? Are we in a new Dark Age, where schools no longer teach basic concepts? If retailers "had no competition", they wouldn't need digital pricing: they'd raise prices from the start and leave them there.

Luckily, they DO have competition. We don't need to "trust" them, because in a free market, overly high pricing hurts profits, not helps.

Agree. I would guess some of you out there have noticed on items like popular tablets the same price is usually on Amazon, Walmart, Best Buy. (or maybe W did the xx.86 vs xx.99)

 

[BobHome]

I was in a Walmart recently that now has those price tags. I went to check out today's (this minutes?) price on my fav chips and it was: |||||||||||||||||||||||

My thought: If you have to ask... I did Not ask and did Not buy them.

 

[ZedRM]

I'm with "Most Americans". This kind of thing is predatory and needs to be stopped.