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Comment by londons_explore

I never quite understood why shops use those electronic shelf labels.

Most of them can't be updated by someone in the store headquarters remotely. Someone has to take a bluetooth programmer device around and program each one by hand. And if they're doing that, they might as well just take a handheld label printer or sheet of labels.

Benefit of the labels is they're clearer than e-ink, brighter, and more colorful (more sales)

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