Walmart Plans Significant Pricing Change in Michigan Stores

Hold onto your shopping cart, Michigan; Walmart is going high-tech. Assuming store associates can adopt the technology, your in-store bargain hunting is about to go digital. Soon, you may no longer have to strain your eyes to read the tiny labels below merchandise. Instead, they will be replaced by Digital Shelf Labels (DSLs), which will soon take over your Mitten State shelves.

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Walmart, the equally beloved and loathed retail giant, has over 120,000 products per store. Think about that. That's just the number of different products, not the amount of their inventory, which would be much higher. Because of this, Walmart has announced that they are getting rid of paper price tags and replacing them with snazzy new electronic labels.

How Walmart's New 'DSL Pricing' Will Change Your Michigan Shopping Experience

The DSL pricing will definitely make things easier for Walmart associates, who will no longer have to spend hours repricing merchandise in the event of a change. Instead, store employees will be able to raise or lower an item's price with—you guessed it—an app.

This means that store associates will spend less time fiddling with paper price tags and more time ignoring your lane light at self-checkout.

When Will DSL Pricing Make It to Michigan Shelves?

Walmart plans to roll out DSLs in 2,300 of its 4,600 stores by 2026. So, Michigan, get ready to experience a shopping revolution--or at least flashing lights on the new DSLs alerting associates that items are out of stock.

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Walmart is touting this change as a 'revolution' in how we shop. Time will tell if this move saves consumers any time or money. Who knows, since we're bagging and scanning our own groceries at Walmart, we may get training on how to operate the new system.