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Maryland, NY, NJ, & Connecticut all have laws against this practice. I intend to make a big deal about this to my GA legislators for Keisha to sign (this is why state & local elections matter!) in the upcoming session.
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.
House Republicans just jammed through the largest cuts to veterans’ benefits in American history—on Veterans Day—by a sneaky voice vote with no roll call, no names, and no accountability.
They gutted future disability ratings for multiple disabilities, projected ~$57 billion claw back over a decade, hitting future claims. The people who actually fought for this country get the short end of the stick so these cowards can claim a win and set Democrats up to take the fall.
Fuck the Trump administration, and especially fuck Mike “likes it up the butthole” Johnson—the spineless tool who pulled this back alley trick while Takano was off the floor.
This is some next-level trolling: US Representative Mark Pocan of Wisconsin introduced legislation called the Eliminate Looting of Our Nation by Mitigating Unethical State Kleptocracy Act (ELON MUSK for short) to make government spending more transparent.
SENATOR SCOTT COLOM (Mississippi)-D. In honor of all those who lost their lives in Freedom Summer. For Medgar Evers. For Fannie Lou Hammer. For our ancestors. There’s Blood on that Ballot Box.
Went to this Lollapalooza at Lake Fairfax. During Siouxsie's set, people started flipping the Evian bottles to spin over the crowd like a swarm of corporate-sponsored gnats. It was beautiful...for about 5 mins. Then they started throwing them at the stage. Siouxsie was not happy.
Sabrina Bruce has made history as the first openly trans person elected to public office in Fairfax County, Virginia. A 12-year military veteran who served in the Air Force and Space Force, Bruce was forced out of military service under the Trump admin's 2025 ban on trans service members. That experience inspired her to continue serving her community through local politics. After winning the most votes in Herndon's Town Council election, she is poised to become the town's next vice mayor #NOH8
@GOP__Ls Victoria Broderick: a lesbian mom to 2 boys. Experienced a miscarriage in a state with very strict anti-abortion laws, which is why she ran in 2024. Lost; decided to run again. Glad she did: SHE WON!
Goodbye to the utter menace to women @DesJarlaisTN04 --go straight to Hell.