And the SEL advertise the reduced price in black, rather then red/yellow. I was impressed that they got a gang of guys to go in and did the whole store in two hours
They're like solid chunky plastic-backed price labels that now overhang the shelve edges. I should have taken a photo really...
They seem much more impractical for staff to use, but I have a hunch that there's something behind them and maybe they can be locked in place magnetically.
I’d imagine they’re e-ink panels, larger version of what supervalu have ?
Places just can't stop dicking about with things, per kg weights were always difficult to read unless at eye level.
this e-ink labels are cheap enough these days to go mainstream in the shops.
Some of them have red /black and 50+ shades of grey - to notify you of the discount .
Advantages for the shop : no need for staff to waste time adding/removing price labels ( allows the shop to do daily spot reductions ) and no more reduced price labels still left on the shelf after promotional time finished.
Disadvantages - signs are not coming in flashy/bright eye catching colours like prints do - from the moment the victim customer stepped into the shop you need to catch his attention with other things you want to sell, and make him forget the reason he came there in the first place
For the Lidl/Aldi e-ink tags - shows product is made in Ireland or not ( if not in Ireland, it's not going to show where, since geography is not the customer's strong points , to match a picture to a country- we're at baby steps stage for now...)
OMG, that's what they were! Wow - it really looks just like print, but with poorer contrast. That explains why the price reduction ones in red were harder to see etc. I was going to suggest earlier that they might be 'smart' in some way, but it didn't make sense coz I was convinced they were printed. Must go back later and have a proper look at them!!
Did anyone see that.some of the product code looked like there was a strike through on them? And the tiny print to boot. It's hard to tell if you've the product on offer.
I saw a good few of these update themselves the other night, they flash for a good 60 seconds and get the new prices automatically (if there are any).
No more SEL pricing mistakes, I guess. All the prices going up and down the past 2 years must've cost them.
my eyesight is not the best even with glasses and the product codes are impossible to read, especially on the higher shelves. i didn't buy some items from the lidl plus app the other day because i couldn't be sure which product was included or not as i couldn't read the code. i even tried to take a picture with my phone to zoom in, but couldn't get a clear pic. it must be extra hard for older people. dunno why lidl aren't making these clearer especially if they're using their product codes in all their offers.
Did it happen during opening hours?
If so there could be problems if the price has changed between the time a customer puts an item in their basket and when they get to the checkout.
I'm sure the usual caveats around posted prices will apply, not binding, invitation to treat, etc. Not much solace to the customer, but SELs have never been enforceable.
With ESELs you can capture more sales at the shelf edge. You can react competitively to price changes; enable instant promotions, track which promotions work, and protect margins on the time-sensitive stock. You can even create offers based on where a specific customer is standing in the store with just a few clicks.
Dynamic pricing comes to the supermarket
Does anyone actually use this **** app?
No bargains at all
no
It happened pretty close to closing time, but the other day my pardner saw a woman pick up an item in another shop (i think it was dunnes) and then less than a minute later a shop-person upped the price on the shelf, so that's always going to be a problem anyway.
Here we'll get prices set at Dublin HQ for every shop in the country and that's it. *Nostradamus*
PARKRUN888 and will allow you a choice between our extra large brown onions or apple juice to help fuel you for, or recover from, your weekly parkrun.
Where is this ginormous apple juice lake?
Sorted 🍹
Beside the Honey warehouse
Seems to be a mysterious shortage of fake honey (and organic lemons) since last Thursday. Hopefully I'll have more luck tomorrow.
In contrast, I've never had an issue with the apple and orange juices. Touch wood!
Lidl blueberries on the leaflet were meant to be 0.79. And app said it until 30 mins ago. Changed the price as I was in the shop and got charged 0.99.
Anybody have a picture of the app showing 0.79???
Interestingly enough, last week I could activate the two honey qpons but this week I can't have the two apple juices on at once.
I think last week they were two different products, the discounted honey was the organic one, while the free one was the "regular" one?
You're probably right. I think I'm merging the last few weeks together, I just remember picking up honey a good few times from the shelves. :p
Also, Lidl joined Aldi in price-beating Tesco on the Christmas chocolate tubs.
€2.99 for them there too since this morning.
Yes, still 79c on my app
Still showing 79c in my app.
Does the weight on these include the packaging?
No. Heroes one is 550g net, 563g incl wraps. Says so on the label
Yeah back to 79c on mine aswell. They changed it back after I complained.
