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walmartは2026年末までに全米の店舗でデジタルプライスラベルを導入すると発表しました。アマンダ・ベイリーさんは、デジタル Shelf Labels (DSLs) の導入により価格管理業務時間が75%削減され、顧客サービスに時間を割けるようになったと述べています。セフトリのシーブン・ターンラーＣＴＯは、デジタルプライスラベルは店舗での作業効率を大幅に向上させるとし、レジでの不一致が減少し、在庫管理も容易になると言います。
しかし、デジタルプライスラベルの導入には懸念も存在します。ペンシルベニア州をはじめとするいくつかの米州では动态定价禁令法案を提出しており、上院議員ベン・レイ・ラウジェンは「食料品店での価格 Manipulation 禁止法」を提案しています。
walmart側は、「あなたが見た価格は同じです」と主張していますが、デジタルプライスラベルは激変価格設定と結びつく可能性があるとの懸念もあります。
Walmart is "rolling out digital price tags to replace the old paper ones," reports CNBC, planning to implement them in all U.S. stores by the end of the year:
Amanda Bailey, a team leader in electronics who works at a Walmart in West Chester, Ohio, estimates that the digital shelf labels — known as DSLs — have cut the time she used to spend on pricing duties by 75%, time that has freed her up to help customers. She also said the DSLs are a game-changer because Walmart's Spark delivery drivers looking for an item will see a flashing DSL so they can more easily find the product...
Sean Turner, chief technology officer of Swiftly, a retail technology and media platform serving the grocery industry, said that while it makes sense that people are raising questions about dynamic pricing, the real issue is store-level efficiency. "Digital shelf labels solve some very real operational headaches. They cut down on manual price changes, reduce checkout discrepancies, and make it easier to keep in-store and digital promotions aligned," Turner said. All of that can mean fewer surprises at the register for shoppers and better-tailored promotions. "For consumers, the biggest benefit is accuracy and consistency," Benedict said. "Shoppers want to know the price they see is the price they pay. Digital labels can also make it easier for stores to mark down perishable items in real time, which can lower food waste and create savings opportunities."
A Walmart spokeswoman promised CNBC that "the price you see is the same for everyone in any given store." But the article also notes that several U.S. states "are looking to ban dynamic pricing. Pennsylvania became one of the latest states to introduce a bill outlawing the practice, following New York's Algorithmic Pricing Disclosure Act, which became law in November."
And at the federal level, U.S. Senator Ben Ray Luján recently introduced the "Stop Price Gouging in Grocery Stores" act, which would ban digital labels in any grocery store over 10,000 square feet, while Congresswoman Val Hoyle is sponsoring similar legislation in the House. "There needs to be laws and enforcement to protect consumers," Hoyle tells CNBC, "and until then, I'd like to see them banned outright."
CNBC adds that "While there is no reported use of digital shelf labeling being tied to surge pricing yet," in Hoyle's view "it's only a matter of time."
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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