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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.
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.
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Well, they do that in Russia
This is Lynn Fitch & she’s the Attorney General of Mississippi who just ruled that the use of force by Senatobia police officer Hunter Foster was justified in the fatal shooting of 1 y/o Kohen Wiley.The officer shot into the car after two women shoplifted diapers & baby clothes.
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Yikes 😬
Oh yeah, I used to Uber and I would say to the passenger oh you live over in the tower press loft building on 24th and they would say yeah I guess that’s where it is 🤨🙀🙀
Completely fucking clueless of where they even live
I see it on the train & bus all the time☹️
When a nation of people see money being printed from nothing and apparently just given to fake billionaires all day long, it can tend to cause things like this
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Yeah, I’m never going drinking with these guys 😹🤣🤣
For everyone that thinks "knock down power" is a thing, this shows you it's really not. I dug up this old video because a European "gun writer" suggested the Polish police should use .45 ACP against people wearing body armor because it would "knock them down". 🤣🙄
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Is this the Detroit version of Hill Street blues with the cow?
Transit officials in Detroit said they are looking into a recent incident in which two horses were captured on video briefly boarding a public bus.
Read more: abcnews.visitlink.me/gzy33d
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Replying to @maldivesjayp
**5 OF TRUMP'S MOST CONTROVERSIAL REMARKS ABOUT U.S. SOLDIERS AND VETERANS**
🇺🇸 **1. On American soldiers killed in war (2020):**
"Losers" and "suckers."
— Reported by The Atlantic and subsequently corroborated in part by former White House Chief of Staff John Kelly. Trump denied the remarks.
🇺🇸 **2. On Vietnam War POW John McCain (2015):**
"He's not a war hero."
— Trump, Family Leadership Summit, Iowa. Recorded on video.
🇺🇸 **3. On American prisoners of war (2015):**
"I like people that weren't captured."
— Trump, referring to John McCain. Recorded on video.
🇺🇸 **4. On fallen American soldiers (2017):**
"I don't get it. What was in it for them?"
— Trump, according to former Chief of Staff John Kelly, describing remarks at Arlington National Cemetery. Trump disputed Kelly's account.
🇺🇸 **5. On soldiers awarded the Medal of Honor (2024):**
"It's actually much better."
— Trump, comparing the civilian Presidential Medal of Freedom favorably with the military Medal of Honor. Recorded on video.
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A soldier guarding the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier issued a verbal reprimand to a group of advisers and staffers with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth following a Veterans Day ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery. As the group broke from taking photos, a loud laugh could be heard, and the soldier guarding the tomb shouted: “All visitors will maintain an atmosphere of silence and respect at all times.”
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🚨🚨 BREAKING NEWS:
THE NAVY has removed BRIAN MONAHAN, the attending physician of the Capitol, amid an investigation for alleged misconduct, according to multiple sources familiar with the matter.
MONAHAN has served in the role since 2009. he is a rear admiral. Office serves lawmakers, staff and SCOTUS.
IG report expected to be public later this week.
reporting with @allymutnick @bresreports @briana_reilly
(@punchbowlnews text subscribers had it first)
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Hegseth Disrespects the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier on Veterans Day,
a Sentinel Sets Him Straight ... youtu.be/IGZiD_Z1wgM?si=N5K7… via @YouTube
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