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Maybe they're not yet tracking individuals through the isles by camera, but they can easily use demographic statistics to update those signs throughout the day.
They could also have a camera at the entrance to keep track of what kind of customers are in the store at any given time. They don't need to have any data on individual customers, as long as their AI can estimate the characteristics of the people currently shopping. Or they can simply automatically raise the price of umbrellas only in the stores where it's raining.
Yes yes yes. I was talking about the devices (digital pricetags) themselves though.
Yes those don't generate any kind of data.
They're programmed using a low power bluetooth mesh network.
This makes it possible to transfer a table of all prices to all shelves in one go. There's no need to program or send data to them individually. There's a limit to something like 30000 tags, which is enough for most stores.
The key is that they can automatically update the prices fast enough that it makes sense to do it. If a human had to do anything in this regard, it probably would not pay off to change the prices with pennies several times daily.