Cool. Hopefully, that should eliminate most of the issues regarding price checks. And other weird stuff like customers removing the tags.
That also opens up new ways to advertise with moving pictures.
"2 Liter Soda... Just 88 cents..." then it flashes "MUST BUY FIVE" "MUST BUY FIVE!" "MUST BUY FIVE!!!!" in alternating contrasting colors so the customer has no reason to say they didn't see that they must buy five. They would have to be blind not to see it.
now they get to cut jobs and hours no more tag hangers
Yep. Say goodbye to the pricing department.
Also I can't wait until those things start malfunctioning and breaking and it takes 3 weeks or even longer for them to get somebody in the store to fix it.
Another thing to make things "tech", which doesn't add anything to customers shopping experience. Even if they installed EDGE on all shelves, I bet they will still have someone go around to make sure items are in the right spots.
So are they going to have big 15 inch sized screens to replace those bigger price signs around the store? What about the price tags in the produce department? I see the produce has to be automatically sprayed with water every few minutes. That can't be good for any electronic screen.
We need something different. The plastic strips that constantly fall down (taking bar codes with them) and can't be well reattached are an utter failure.
Does look like a clever approach to having the tags up. But given how prices aren't always what they were initially meant to be in my store at times. I think they would spend hours having to re-program things just to make sure things are reflecting how they should be. Or as another poster pointed out, someone is bound to knock into them at some point and shutdown a good section of the store's tags for hours til they can get someone in to fix it. Oh wait, make that, go through the chain of command, see who can fix it at the store, then get management involved, and then as a last result find someone to fix it.
But given how prices aren't always what they were initially meant to be in my store at times. I think they would spend hours having to re-program things just to make sure things are reflecting how they should be.
There you go. No need to get rid of the people who put up the paper tags. Just have them be the ones who are programming the prices. Same job, just a slightly different medium.
And if someone breaks the electronic shelves, just bring out the old paper tags and temporarily place them on the shelves.
But given how prices aren't always what they were initially meant to be in my store at times. I think they would spend hours having to re-program things just to make sure things are reflecting how they should be.
There you go. No need to get rid of the people who put up the paper tags. Just have them be the ones who are programming the prices. Same job, just a slightly different medium.
And if someone breaks the electronic shelves, just bring out the old paper tags and temporarily place them on the shelves.
Would make sense. But that kind of thinking doesn't always seem to flow the same way for everyone.
Actually, I didn't think about this yet. I wonder if they set the system up to update pricing from POS/ISP of if they have to generate the image from Corp and send it down to each item location. Again, it looks new and shiny, but really its already outdated and not a full solution.
We need to be INNOVATIVE.......NOT........ REACTIVE!!
Yes, they are linked directly to the cash register/POS system so the price shown on the shelf is the price that will show on the register. (Provided the item is in the correct spot, of course.) We will still need people to verify prices since nothing is 100% error-proof. For example, if an item goes on sale, it will only reflect correctly on the edge screens and the registers if someone puts the correct price in the register system.
The Edge system is not designed to replace EVERY sign, price label, etc. Its not used in the produce department, for example. Also, stores will still print and use the big yellow signs for promotions that arent on shelves.
