Actually changing the price of the SKUs in the system is easy, that’s just a few mouseclicks, but the consumer needs to know the prices, and Walmart is still using stickers on the packages, and paper tags on the shelves. For the near future, that part, the HARD part, is all manual.
I work in Walmarts, and all of my stores have recently(over the last few months) rolled out the e-ink electronic price tags. I wouldn’t be surprised if the tariff drama is the reason they decided to pull the trigger to save a bunch of price-change labor.
At least there will be lots of new minimum wage jobs for those that have to re-price all the inventory on a weekly basis.
Most stores I go to nowadays have those electronic price tags that can be changed en masse by a corporate drone somewhere from far away. Scary.
Actually changing the price of the SKUs in the system is easy, that’s just a few mouseclicks, but the consumer needs to know the prices, and Walmart is still using stickers on the packages, and paper tags on the shelves. For the near future, that part, the HARD part, is all manual.
I work in Walmarts, and all of my stores have recently(over the last few months) rolled out the e-ink electronic price tags. I wouldn’t be surprised if the tariff drama is the reason they decided to pull the trigger to save a bunch of price-change labor.
That’s exactly why, count on it.