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January 1, Walmart’s Digital Revolution: Streamlining In-Store Pricing at 2,300 Locations
Walmart is embracing digitization for its in-store pricing, with plans to replace paper shelf price tags with digital ones in 2,300 stores across the U.S. The Arkansas-based retailer announced that this transition will occur within the next two years.
This technology will enable workers to make price changes “with a few clicks” and streamline other tasks, according to Walmart. Some consumers have questioned whether this move towards digital shelf labels would lead to dynamic pricing.
However, a company spokesperson assured that Walmart’s pricing system “does not support this and we have no plans to develop this capability.” The spokesperson emphasized that Walmart’s pricing strategy remains focused on Everyday Low Prices.
“Digital Shelf Labels are simply a new method to communicate pricing to the customer and a technology tool that assists associates with various tasks,” they added.
One major benefit of the digital shelf labels is streamlining the time-consuming process of updating prices for new items, rollbacks, and markdowns. Walmart stated that this process currently takes up to two days due to the vast number of items in their stores.
But with digital labels, it will only take a couple of minutes. Additional features will make stocking shelves and fulfilling online orders more efficient.
Walmart highlighted the “Pick to Light” capability, which helps workers locate items needed for an online order by lighting up the digital shelf label. This will give workers “more time to support customers in the store.”
Walmart has already conducted trials of the digital shelf labels, including at a location in Grapevine, Texas. To date, 63 Walmart locations have installed digital shelf labels, and more are in the process of getting them.
Walmart has approximately 4,600 locations in the U.S. and nearly 5,400 abroad, as well as around 600 Sam’s Club locations in America. Other retailers that have adopted digital shelf labels include Carrefour, Whole Foods, and Schnucks.
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George
July 2, 2024 at 7:32 am
How do shoppers know the item price if digital
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Carol
July 2, 2024 at 9:02 pm
You scan it with your mobil phone.
Rattlerjake
September 3, 2024 at 10:35 am
And what about those like me who don’t own a mobile phone?
M.A. White
July 2, 2024 at 8:03 am
It may help the employees, but how will a customer know what price a specific item is?
Rattlerjake
July 2, 2024 at 8:33 am
Probably scan t with your phone. But there are those like me, that don’t have cell phone or portable internet capability, that won’t be able to.
the traveller
July 2, 2024 at 11:05 am
Yeah. How will us older folks know how to decipher that stuff? We can barely decipher our phones now!!
Norman
July 2, 2024 at 2:07 pm
I don’t have a cell phone so how will I know what items cost.
JUDY
July 2, 2024 at 3:15 pm
I don’t shop Walmarts . Definitely won’t be going now. I can use my smartphone but don’t want another app QR app. So, no go.
Mary Stacy
July 2, 2024 at 8:15 am
I usually would not comment, but at age I am now I have over the years in store shoppers called customers are not a concern to Walmart. I’m sure the digital method is a much needed process in direction Walmart has gone with on line shopping. Not all, but for most part, the associates that fill on line orders are rude, unfriendly, and not concerned about the in store “customer “. If you have a basket filled past top and on your side of isle or turning a corner, the associate takes their privilege first of “customer” . Then you scan your own groceries, stop as leaving to see if you have stolen anything, and as consumers we are crazy enough to continue going to a box store that is really an on line shopping store, not a community grocery store with customer satisfaction in mind! Homeland is now a wonderful choice to receive any customer assistance. No I don’t own stock in either store.
Fred Waldron
July 2, 2024 at 9:21 am
The main benefit is to Walmart: it’s easier for them to RAISE prices!
Changes such as this are never for the benefit of the customer!
Vivica Ray
July 2, 2024 at 11:24 am
So are we to guess what the price of an item is, that’s going to make sales go down because people want to know how much they are paying for there stuff. Fixed income customers need to know what they are spending . That or there will be a lot of cancellations at the register because because they will be checking prices there.
MizT
July 2, 2024 at 12:06 pm
…and how will we find these employees anyway? They certainly aren’t working the registers anymore so they can’t use that excuse.
– Signed by a lowly curmudgeon.
Lance
July 2, 2024 at 12:14 pm
I hope not qr codes I don’t use a cell phone
Chief1937
July 2, 2024 at 12:33 pm
Switching will cause mass confusion as most elderly are not computer savy even at that will all phones be able to decipher this code?
Karen Q Smith
July 2, 2024 at 12:48 pm
No phone carried by me, either.
Norma
July 2, 2024 at 2:12 pm
I don’t have a cell phone how will I know the prices of items.
JUDY
July 2, 2024 at 3:14 pm
I don’t shop Walmarts . Definitely won’t be going now. I can use my smartphone but don’t want another app QR app. So, no go.
JUDY
July 2, 2024 at 3:17 pm
I filled it out disappeared. Very “jumpy” letters.