If you don’t like what the price tags show, just change them yourself using an app.

From the article, it’s interesting that some U.S. states have banned the e-pricetags:

• Maryland banned surveillance pricing in April
• Connecticut signed a ban into law in June
• New Jersey signed a ban into law in July

Europe is not on the ball AFAIK.

The one good thing about these electronic tags --you would expect-- would be accurate prices. But I’ve already discovered cases where the cash register price differed from the shelf price. I took the cashier back to the price, and the shelf price was still different (thus it was not a case of the price changing after I grabbed the item.. it was in fact a database inconsistency). I have also seen cases where the price per unit wildly differed from reality, which is contrary to what you would expect if everything is electronic.

I don't think they are "likely" going to do that. Its literally their intended purpose

Lets be honest, replacing labels on a shelf is hardly a job we need to be saving.

Just make it illegal to raise prices on products while customers are in the shop so that they can't change the price between you picking it up and going to pay for it.

Can we have a full automated communism now?

Or is it still too early?

We are squeezing down the margins on everything. At one point, we should accept that profit is not the correct incentive to make things better.

Watch the bottled water prices trippling on hot days and before disasters