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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.

• bradknowles 9y ago
  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.
  • yorwba 9y ago
    If the price drops between picking up an item and paying for it, I don't think anyone would complain.
    • robryan 9y ago
      And you can handle the other direction with a lag. Charge the old lower price for 30 minutes.