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		jpambrun on Aug 22, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Inky Impression 5.7“ – Colour e-ink display for Ra... Paper price have to be changed every week for specials even in Quebec.. it is very labour intensive and very error probe. They also often fall off. Eink price displays are meant to help that. I used to work in a groceries store and changing price used to take so long that we had to do even while opened with shopping customers..

b112 on Aug 22, 2022 [–]

One comment here, there don't need to be sales!

Sales are a marketing gimmick, to pull in shoppers via loss leaders. So all that work you described, is on purpose.

That said, the store needs to take inventory, audit things regardless, monitor when to order new product. Price changes are merely a part of that.

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