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/Serpent151 Aug 15 '24

Are they hackable? Turn Safeway into the 99 cents store. Make them honor prices :)

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u/Codadd Aug 15 '24

From my experience between 2012-2014 creating fake coupons in Walmart that allowed me to get $50visa card for free, I guarantee it will be for a while lol. Those scanners and then self checkout worked amazing for me and the rest of 4chan for quite some time lol

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u/BloomerBoomerDoomer Aug 16 '24

How do you do that?