Walmart switching to digital shelf labels nationwide:
Walmart said the digital shelf labels are controlled through a centralized system and will allow for faster price changes.
The digital labels will also help employees stock shelves and fulfill online orders more quickly.
It’s not about the stocking, and it’s not about the picking.
Hey, did you notice that the aisles in Walmart are wider these days? Remember when they narrowed a few years back, which made it hard for us to get through them, but now they’re wider? I don’t suppose that has anything to do with the giant carts that the online ordering employees have started wheeling around? Of course it has. For your convenience.
You know, an aunt of mine by marriage got a promotion out of being a checker at Walgreens in the 1990s into being a Price Administrator. It was her full-time job, in a Walgreens (not a large department store), to adjust the prices of sales items for the week and to audit the prices on the shelves to make sure that they showed the actual price for the item. A full-time job. The electronic tags would eliminate that position, if it hasn’t already been eliminated.
