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by itopaloglu83 44 days ago
An average store carries around 20,000 SKUs, so I understand that they’re looking for easier solutions to price updates, especially after having relatively high inflation after a couple of decades.

However, they’re already making it impossible for shoppers to track prices, and we all know soon (left to their own devices) they’re going to switch to individual pricing.

I’m surprised that the pricing issue is not being discussed in the context of online shopping already, with home deliveries on the rise.

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I have zero sympathy for them. My local Safeway, despite being able to upgrade to e-Ink price tags with all this is still absolutely intended to make it impossible for consumers. Example, for the same brand of paper towel, in different sizes, the price comparison for one size is $/sheet, another, $/sqft, and another, $/roll.

They have the solutions, they just know that the more solutions are in play, the less (in theory) they'll be able to get away with shit like this.