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A supermarket trip may soon look different, thanks to electronic shelf labels (www.npr.org)
submitted 5 months ago by return2ozma to c/technology
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

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.