Our idea of the future was so much better than what we actually have now.
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Who would have thought that people’s fear of being called “racist” would be the root of our undoing.
Thank you to all the US veterans and their families. Thank you for laying it down for all of us.
This is just to give @Disney executives a way to execute the “ideas” spat out by an algorithm, without having to deal with (ugh) artists.
Walt Disney Imagineering just shared the first glimpses of their "multi-year strategic alliance" with Adobe featuring AI tools🖌️
"Concepting at the speed of imagination: Adobe Firefly Foundry can turn a simple 2D sketch into a fully-realized 3D concept"View quoted post on X
.@Walmart @kroger, what a slap in the face to the American shopper.
You should dismantle this immediately.
And shoppers, do not under any circumstances, allow these companies’ apps on your phone. Whatever discounts they have through them are being counteracted by raising prices when they detect your phone nearby. It’s a scam.
You should dismantle this immediately.
And shoppers, do not under any circumstances, allow these companies’ apps on your phone. Whatever discounts they have through them are being counteracted by raising prices when they detect your phone nearby. It’s a scam.
Walmart and Kroger are quietly rolling out an internal store technology across America that could either modernize retail or bankrupt the middle-class family budget.View quoted post on X
Starting across thousands of locations heading into 2027, traditional paper price tags are being ripped off grocery shelves and replaced with cloud-connected digital screens. Raise the price of bottled water by 20 percent the second the afternoon temperature hits 90 degrees. Surge the cost of ground beef, milk, and sandwich bread between 5 PM and 6 PM when exhausted commuters are rushing home from work. Drop prices at 10 AM on a Tuesday, then hike them right back up the minute the after-school crowd walks through the sliding doors.
Every price change happens wirelessly in seconds from a central corporate dashboard. No store employee has to touch a single shelf.
Walmart has already signed a massive deployment deal with VusionGroup to wire 2,300 American supercenters with EdgeSense digital shelf rails by 2027. Kroger is expanding its own Microsoft-backed system called EDGE across hundreds of supermarkets. Over 60 million digital price tags are already blinking on US grocery aisles right now.
This is not supply chain inflation. This is Uber-style surge pricing built directly into the shelves where Americans buy baby formula, eggs, and medicine.
Last week I sat down for coffee with a former retail pricing director who spent 14 years building supermarket margin algorithms before leaving the industry. What he shared over the table completely changed how I look at a grocery aisle.
"Retailers just turned static shelves into live stock tickers. The question is not whether grocery chains will use instant price changes, because they already spent billions installing the hardware. The question is how much extra money a family of four will lose every week simply because both parents work until 5 PM and cannot shop during off-peak hours."
Here is how the digital grocery pricing system actually works, how it tracks you in the aisle, and the exact phone settings and checkout playbook you need to beat it.
