ArnoldC
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- Texas, USA
Beginning to see this on an intermittent basis here in Houston. Not everywhere and not all the time. But with enough frequency to not be the occasional oversight either. Possibly as a shopper I am expected to scan the price with my 'smartphone' (which by the way I detest and generally leave in the truck powered down for emergency use only).There used to be tags on store shelves indicating the price of the item. They seem to be disappearing from one market. How are you supposed to know how much you're going to have to shell out for something? I inquired at the courtesy desk and was informed that since prices are changing on an almost daily basis, the stock clerks would be spending most of their time replacing the shelf tags, so they are phasing them out. (the tags, not the clerks)
Whaaaa......?
If that is indeed the case, then as a shopper I must rely on the honesty of the checkout clerk and the store to charge me fairly. Yeah, right.
Along similar lines, I am finding paper coupons have mostly disappeared. Be they by postal mail or at grocery store shelves. There is some gimmicky catch phrase name attached to it-can't remember-but basically, again scan and save to a smartphone for use at checkout. Pay by phone coming next and more jobs lost to checkout clerks?
It is becoming a matter of adapt to survive on the shopping scene. I'm not so quick to adapt these days. Part because of being a senior. Part because I am suspect of the nature of all this headlong downhill full pace plunge to embrace digital technology for any reason or for no reason at all.
Anyway, that's my 2cents. Arnold