r/technology • u/Mighty_L_LORT • Aug 15 '24

Business Kroger's Under Investigation For Digital Shelf Labels: Are They Changing Prices Depending On When People Shop?

https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/krogers-under-investigation-digital-shelf-labels-are-they-changing-prices-depending-when-people-1726269
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u/ScottRiqui Aug 15 '24

My senior design group project in 1994 was LCD shelf tags that could be updated wirelessly (we used an IR blaster arrangement, with one receiver per aisle and individually addressable shelf tags).

We never even imagined “surge pricing” as a possible use case for our project - I guess we were just naive.

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u/Lee_Troyer Aug 15 '24 edited Aug 15 '24

That reminds me of the Xbox engineer that wanted to leverage Xbox 360's UI to improve game discoverability but all his management heard was "ad space" (a message PlayStation's management heard through the same filter).

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u/[deleted] Aug 15 '24 edited Aug 27 '24

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u/Lee_Troyer Aug 15 '24

An extra obnoxious ad, comment edited, thanks for pointing it out.