Re:Whole Foods employees reveal why stores are facing a cris...
by robryan on Friday January 19, 2018 @05:38PM
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Yeah stores must spend a lot of time on manually marking things down. Plenty of room for innovation, would just need to move to digital price displays.
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Re:Whole Foods employees reveal why stores are facing a cris...
by bradknowles on Saturday January 20, 2018 @01:17AM
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Actually, as a customer, I can confirm that all the Whole Foods Markets I’ve seen do have digital pricing displays for most things - they are based on e-paper technology.
But you don’t want prices changing between the time a customer has picked up a product and the time they get to the checkout. And then there’s the whole problem of the in-store prices not matching the published circular prices.
So, lots of issues to work out there before dynamic pricing can work well in a physical store.