Posted on 01/02/2013 12:29:47 PM PST by matt04
Individual price stickers on groceries may disappear in the new year.
A new state law allows shop owners to place price scanners throughout their store as an alternative to having individual tags on each item. Many larger stores already have such scanners.
It is designed to be a cost saving measure, but it has some disadvantages for customers. Some consumer advocates also argue that scanners can be unreliable.
Mary Ann Spencer of Springfield told 22News that the change is not good for her.
"It would be more difficult for me because I am handicapped, and so if I had to run back and forth with an item to see how much it's going to cost, it would take me an awful long time to do my shopping,” she said.
Before the new law was passed, Massachusetts was the last state in the country to require individual price stickers on each item. Retailers are still required to have product prices marked in store aisles.
It’ll make it much easier for the stores when inflation hits big-time.
For the consumers? Maybe not so much.
“Some consumer advocates also argue that scanners can be unreliable.”
Before I retired, the error rate of a UPC with error checking was lower than 1 in 13 million. I wonder how many consumer advocates could enter in the price of 13 million items without an error!
Where an error can occur is the human entering a new price into the store’s database such that when the UPC number is called up an incorrect price will be sent to the register.
Pricing every item in the store is a daunting and expensive task.
I recently got one 89 oz orange juice free because the scanner priced it higher than the labeled price.
I remember when K-Mart started not marking their products on the shelf. That was probably 20 years ago and I haven’t been back there since.
Or maybe he was against those things before he evolved in favor of them, or was it he was for them before he evolved against them? Oh well, give the etch-a-sketch another shake and make it what you want, I mean even after he ran during two elections and did his damnedest to smear every other candidate, he didn't really want to run for President
But don't worry stalwart conservatives like Paul Ryan and the GOPe in congress would "hold his feet to the fire"..........you know those same stalwart conservatives that voted for the "fiscal cliff" disastrophe.
That the communist punk you referring to GSC? Or is there some FR fantasy-land candidate you thought was the "second coming of Reagan" by the same name?
How about we come up with real candidates that actually have Conservative values rather than defending liberal massholes like Myth Romney and pretending something they're not?
Massachusetts politicians bravely take a big jump from the 1960’s all the way into 1970’s technology.
I think it’s terrible. I consider the labels on the shelf, and especially the unit prices, an important service I want from the store.
and others...
“Massachusetts was the last state in the country to require individual price stickers on each item. Retailers are still required to have product prices marked in store aisles”.
Some confusion here. They are just normalizing things.
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