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Walmart's use of digital price tags signal the future of retail shopping, but consumers are worried(www.techspot.com)

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Sauerkraut@discuss.tchncs.de
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I think this will be potentially be a good thing (at first) as you won’t have people wasting their life away just endlessly walking around the store updating the price of every individual item for 40 hours a week.

Things will get messy when they start price gouging based on current inventory, weather, holidays or emergency situations.

Things will get deeply dystopian if they start scanning customers as they enter and change the price based on their skin color, gender, clothing, or estimated net worth.

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or estimated net worth

Walmart credit card. They don’t need to estimate when you willingly provide it.

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