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.
@AHHtheris LMAO
It’s one of the only actual places out there. We had to go there for our dr’s appointments because we lived in the middle of NOWHERE in NM 😭 crazy these places exist in the US
And; the reverse cross originated as a catholic symbol for St. Peter that represents devotion and humility.
So, what’s my point? Stop speaking on shit you know nothing about. 👍
Fun fact: there is “theistic” and “non-theistic” satanism.
Non-theistic satanism doesn’t believe in a god, but primarily seeks to counter religious oppression. See TST as an example.
Theistic satanism is the crazy guys you hear about bc they are real devil worshippers.
GUESS WHAT:
I AM NOT A CHRISTIAN! I AM NOT A CATHOLIC! I NEVER WILL BE!! IF ME WEARING MY INVERTED CROSS BOTHERS YOU, *YOU DO NOT HAVE TO TALK TO ME*!
I AM NOT A SATANIST! I SHOULDN’T HAVE TO DEFEND MYSELF AGAINST THIS CONDESCENDING LINE OF QUESTIONING!
And then you add an inability to accept criticism on top of that, and it’s a nightmare. You can’t hold a lot of far leftists accountable and call them out on their views because you’re automatically a racist or some type of -phobe. It’s super counterproductive.
Unfortunately, the chronically online leftists have built their entire political identity around feeling morally and intellectually superior to everyone else. Add ideological echo chambers and an inability to tolerate disagreement, and you get a pretty insufferable combination.
Lowkey and I mean this as no shade whatsoever a lot of leftists gotta learn how to talk to people man. Like sometimes you just gotta meet the people where they are (only those truly acting in good faith) because I promise you calling folks idiots and shit aint gone-
Yeah the blue wave has been great… but we need to make sure these new elects are actually going to fulfill their promises. I’m still cynical until I see real action that backs what they say - until then, it’s mainly attributed to how fed up the US is right now. Don’t lose focus.
If Trump launches a nuclear attack, this will end the world as we know it. Along with collapsing global markets. And putting the homeland at risk.
Trump will go down as the biggest mistake in American history.
Under pressure from Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the Trump administration may be within days of launching a nuclear strike on Iran. The target would be Pickax Mountain in central Iran, where Israeli intelligence claims the Iranian government has restarted its nuclear enrichment program. No conventional weapon in the American arsenal can penetrate 300 feet of solid granite to destroy the tunnels where enrichment is supposedly taking place. The only military option is a nuclear strike. Netanyahu has been pushing hard for one. “Bibi calls Trump about it every day,” says an informed observer.
Netanyahu is cornered and desperate. After last week’s election results, he can’t form a government unless Trump intervenes directly in Israeli politics and brokers a deal with other parties that gives Netanyahu 61 seats in the Knesset. Otherwise, he is out as prime minister and on his way to ignominy, investigations and possibly jail. Netanyahu must stay close to Trump. He needs this war.
To that end, he’s applied maximum pressure to his closest allies in the administration, including Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and CENTCOM commander Brad Cooper. Both oppose a negotiated settlement to the war they’ve so grievously mismanaged; both are pushing to restart major combat operations. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and CIA director John Ratcliffe are also following Netanyahu’s lead, as are leaders of the Democratic Party. In a recent meeting on the subject, former president Barack Obama said he opposes the current Iran peace deal being drafted in Doha.
The rest of America’s longtime allies in the Middle East are terrified by the prospect of more war. On September 27th, Netanyahu flew secretly to Abu Dhabi to enlist the UAE in his lobbying effort for a final attack on Iran. The Emiratis refused. After eight months of conflict, Gulf economies are teetering. So are global energy and fertilizer markets. They won’t recover soon. Globally, there are a total of about 850 supertankers used to transport oil from producers to the rest of the world. In October alone, 11 of them were badly damaged in Hormuz. At this pace, a global depression is imminent. A nuclear strike would radically accelerate the destruction. Fallout from a ground explosion at Pickax Mountain would contaminate the Persian Gulf, poisoning the water supply for 100 million people.
And those are just some of the immediate consequences for the region. The rest of the world is every bit as exposed. No country other than the United States has ever used a nuclear weapon in war. Some would like to. An American nuclear attack on Iran would set a new precedent. The Russians have already told at least two other governments that an American nuclear strike on Iran would free them to use nuclear weapons against Ukraine. Pakistan and India would be tempted to do the same against each other, as would North Korea against Seoul. After the first nuclear strike, World War Three is inevitable. That war would be short and final.
We’ve been sleepwalking toward this moment for months. Since February, the administration has quietly rewritten America’s nuclear doctrine to make first use of so-called “battlefield nukes” easier and therefore more likely. No one in Washington in either party seems bothered by this. Now we’re on the brink of it.
Close observers say Trump is likely to decide by next weekend whether or not to use nuclear weapons. That would be November 7, six days from now. To his credit, he’s hesitating. At the moment, Trump is listening to his vice president, JD Vance, and to his envoy and friend Steve Witkoff, both of whom argue a deal with Iran can be made.
They’re right, though it won’t be simple. The Iranians are famously frustrating to negotiate with under any circumstances, and elements of that government have become more radical since Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and his family were killed in February. After decades of isolation, even relatively moderate Iranian leaders seem confused by how decisions are made in the West. (There is a widespread belief in Tehran, for example, that the United States government controls Israel.) But overall, people who have spoken to decision-makers in Iran say there is consensus there that more war is bad for everyone and a deal is worth making.
One group that hasn’t been consulted so far is the global population — the hundreds of millions of people who will be killed along with their children if Trump is pushed by Netanyahu into launching a nuclear strike next week. Now would be the time for them to speak up.
I’m so fucking depressed to be back in Nashville bro living in this city actually SUCKS. I am about to fucking cry. I just came from a week in New England and I want to be anywhere else.
So I got dragged into the middle of it and she absolutely hates me now, due to her own insecurities, when SHE’S NEVER EVEN SPOKEN TO ME. Not have I ever given any indication I was into my friend bc I was not. I was happy I could have a fully platonic male friend, but gess not.
A friendship of mine literally just ended because his gf broke up with him after he invited me to play pinball with him and his other friend. She got pissed that I was there but never even met me—her bf and I only knew each other for 2mos and hung out IRL 1 other time. 1/2
my bf went to watch a movie with my best friend without me last week (i don’t do horror) and it made me so happy bc i want the ppl i love to also like each other and form relationships. many of these “rules” are honestly just built on insecurity
Being asexual highkey peaceful until PEOPLE DRAG YOU INTO THE MIDDLE OF THEIR RELATIONSHIP DRAMA
ISN’T THE POINT OF BEING ASEXUAL AVOIDING RELATIONSHIP DRAMA