Nipped in to Aldi on the way home on a long trip for some chilled fruit and noticed that the price labels were small electronic panels.
They look like e-ink devices.
Not sure that I'm keen. What happens if the price changes between when you put the item in your trolley and get to the till (I suspect offer and acceptance rules apply - so the price at the checkout is what the shop is offering to sell the product to you for).
I can imagine surge pricing being introduced. Lamb joints - £20, on the day before Easter Sunday. The last one in the store at 7:50PM, £60 as they know you desperately want it.
I also see some shops are allowing shoppers to scan goods with their phones to check out as they go. What's stopping them removing the pricing and offering different prices to different customers (I recently booked a 3 day spa trip for Mrs Z and her sister - the price on my iPhone was £50 more than the price on the laptop - caches cleared on both devices).
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