General > General Technical Chat
Retail products (food, consumables) qty shrinking, price THE SAME! (no surprise)
Halcyon:
--- Quote from: Muttley Snickers on November 22, 2019, 07:38:21 am ---I shop at all three major chains, Aldi, Coles and Woolworths and the latter is the only supermarket where we need to use two shopping trolleys, one is for the shopping and the other is used to cart around the mantis microscope so we can read their prices, the price per unit fonts are tiny.
--- End quote ---
Woolworths have started rolling out e-ink shelf tags in several NSW stores. They even come in colour :-)
eti:
--- Quote from: Halcyon on November 23, 2019, 04:05:55 am ---
--- Quote from: Muttley Snickers on November 22, 2019, 07:38:21 am ---I shop at all three major chains, Aldi, Coles and Woolworths and the latter is the only supermarket where we need to use two shopping trolleys, one is for the shopping and the other is used to cart around the mantis microscope so we can read their prices, the price per unit fonts are tiny.
--- End quote ---
Woolworths have started rolling out e-ink shelf tags in several NSW stores. They even come in colour :-)
--- End quote ---
Ah that's fantastic; finally a solution to the age-old problem of... erm, oh, hang on... QUICK - someome find a water-tight, provable justification for it - QUICK! :)
Halcyon:
--- Quote from: eti on November 23, 2019, 04:12:34 am ---Ah that's fantastic; finally a solution to the age-old problem of... erm, oh, hang on... QUICK - someome find a water-tight, provable justification for it - QUICK! :)
--- End quote ---
There is something quite nice about e-ink displays. It's nice to finally see them on shop shelves. It would mean a lot less work for staff. Simply push new prices out over the air. Everything gets updated at once, the POS system, Website price and shelf price.
ataradov:
--- Quote from: eti on November 23, 2019, 04:12:34 am ---Ah that's fantastic; finally a solution to the age-old problem of... erm, oh, hang on... QUICK - someome find a water-tight, provable justification for it - QUICK! :)
--- End quote ---
They can be updated automatically from a central database. You can change prices in real time. Just like Amazon does.
eti:
--- Quote from: ataradov on November 23, 2019, 04:15:19 am ---
--- Quote from: eti on November 23, 2019, 04:12:34 am ---Ah that's fantastic; finally a solution to the age-old problem of... erm, oh, hang on... QUICK - someome find a water-tight, provable justification for it - QUICK! :)
--- End quote ---
They can be updated automatically from a central database. You can change prices in real time. Just like Amazon does.
--- End quote ---
And when all this "smart" junk goes wrong, then what? A shelf-stacker could remove a paper slip and replace it in around 2-5 seconds, and no servers needed. Yet another example of making a simple, age-old system over complicated "just because"; just because you CAN do something, doesn't make the fact that you saw it through to execution, "better".
Power cut = no e-ink update = problems. People are stupid.
Navigation
[0] Message Index
[#] Next page
[*] Previous page
Go to full version