Retailers want to cut labor costs; that was the logic behind the wave of chains adding self-checkout. If consumers scanned their own items, a staffer did not have to. Instead of one clerk per aisle, a ...

Walmart says the system frees staff and keeps prices low, but critics fear it could lead to 'surveillance pricing'. Walmart is bringing digital shelf labels to its entire US store network within the ...

At last month’s NRF Big Show, Panasonic System Communications Co., a division of Panasonic Corp. of North America, drew a great deal of attention for the electronic shelf label (ESL) system it ...