What type of sandwich is it?
"Dynamic Pricing"
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What type of sandwich is it?
classic33
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If that's not the adverised price, then £1.85(as advertised).
Shelf prices would have to be adjusted, or they end up with something at the till that can't be sold. The dynamic pricing will only be done at the till. Advertise a product at one price, then try charging higher when trying to take payment.
Levo-Lon
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Indeed..and why i think its best done out of trading times..
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Not true the shelf price must match the till price or it's illegal trading. The point of lcd labels is that prices at till matches price at shelf. So it enables compliance where mismatched prices because a paper label hadn't been change has and continues to lead to large fines. Prices aren't controlled at a till as the till is not the master of the prices merely a recipient of the updates.
Levo-Lon
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It's a bit like motorpoint saying drive away today for £12995..
Then it needs a 100 quid pdi and high pressure insurance sales push..
And they often want a delivery charge..
Customers are for fleecing as they say..
It's a bit like motorpoint saying drive away today for £12995..
Then it needs a 100 quid pdi and high pressure insurance sales push..
And they often want a delivery charge..
Customers are for fleecing as they say..
It's interesting the media's slant on it (I saw the other thread). The big supermarkets are cutting a lot of hours and one of the target areas is the area described, the people who walk around changing tickets. It is very labour intensive as a task changing or checking up to 25,000 prices, even if you are a smaller supermarket with 8,000 prices or mini one with 4,000 prices. Where I used to work they have also like other retailers been cutting down on the people who walk around doing the price changes and given the major price changes to the night shift in a gigantic cost cutting exercise. You can see where's it's going.
It's not all bad, an up to 15 hour long bender of a night shift for those involved every 2-3 weeks was not fun. If that can be done by electronic labels and fewer 6am shifts that's also good.
Waste on fresh departments or sandwiches can be very significant if you have a manager that doesn't know what they are doing. Reductions are very labour intensive too and in the age of everyone being a part time worker and severe hours cuts dynamic pricing on sandwiches makes sense to the companies too.
It's not all bad, an up to 15 hour long bender of a night shift for those involved every 2-3 weeks was not fun. If that can be done by electronic labels and fewer 6am shifts that's also good.
Waste on fresh departments or sandwiches can be very significant if you have a manager that doesn't know what they are doing. Reductions are very labour intensive too and in the age of everyone being a part time worker and severe hours cuts dynamic pricing on sandwiches makes sense to the companies too.
But you know what you are going to get when you go in, to be fair there is some cheap cars on offer there at times.
With the sandwich type scenario on profitability a lot of chains have parred back significantly on the loss making/break even meal deals. They still exist, but a lot smaller. I've heard of other stuff across the pond where loss making aspects of the operation have been zapped or looked at.
This was the point of the new labels, they are "live"
When the price in changed at 11:59, both the till and the shelf price will change, so without a label on the item it is perfectly feasible to change the price between picking up the item and buying it
The 'new' labels work very well for some things, but not so much for other things like produce where there are some difficulties (although also additional advantages such as changing the country of origin means lots of changes to labels on those products).
vickster
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Indeed that's the new system they were discussing on the Beeb
The concept is for a small "e-reader" type shelf tag:
They update in the same ways your Kindle does, displaying the new information
... and with regards to the product, there are already price tags using the technology:
One small "flaw" is who recharges all of these?
Although it is likely that power use is small, so will the battery be, so who recharges these labels?
They update in the same ways your Kindle does, displaying the new information
... and with regards to the product, there are already price tags using the technology:
One small "flaw" is who recharges all of these?
Although it is likely that power use is small, so will the battery be, so who recharges these labels?
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Small induction circuits behind the labels. They only need topping up about once every 60 days.
classic33
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Magnet would disable it then.