NOW I see it. Here he is talking about “surveillance pricing” as his excuse – even though that is impossible in grocery stores.
Here is the REAL reason a bunch of states are “taking up arms” against the electronic pricing tags which are used all over Japan and Europe already:
Christ, is there a union for EVERYTHING?
So the United Clowns Who Change Paper Price Tags And Smoke Weed All Day is upset that they can’t stroll around the floor at their leisure and swap out paper price tags for hours on end. If you are unfortunate enough to own a grocery store in, say, Tukwila Washington, you get the pleasure of paying some monkey at LEAST $21.65 per hour to lollygag around the aisles and change out paper tags for hours and hours.
OR you can get these ESLs and save yourself tens of thousands of dollars per year in labor costs.
I’m guessing when grocery store barcode scanners were implemented in the 1970s and 80s, the United Cashiers Keypad Punchers Union howled like monkeys, too.
Tough shit. Technology moves on and things change. Deal with it.
Even it they WERE only changing to ESLs for nefarious “surge pricing” reasons, so what?? LOTS of industries alter prices when demand is high: Uber, Lyft, toll roads, airlines, gas stations, Airbnb, theme parks, etc.
This may shock Comrade Clayton but resort prices and air fare to Florida are WAY higher in mid-March during spring break than they are in early August. You moron.
Why should the grocery stores be any different? If you don’t like it, go at a different time. Or open your own fucking grocery store and advertise your low, low “all-the-time’ prices.
Whiny pussy.