Joe Feldman
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49 appearances
4 recordings
3 series
first heard May 2025
last heard 23 Mar
Joe Feldman’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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The average Walmart supercenter is nearly 180,000 square feet, bigger than three football fields.
And it carries something like 120,000 items, each with its own price.
Joe Feldman is a retail analyst at Telsey Advisory Group.
Electronic price labels replace manual labor with the click of a button.
And Feldman says there are other time-saving advantages.
Workers can use an app to identify shelves that need attention.
Electronic prices will allow Walmart to not just change prices more easily, but whenever it wants.
The company says it will only do this outside of shopping hours.
So the cost of toothpaste can't go up between when you grab it from the shelf and when you check out.
Still, Phil Lempert, a food industry analyst, says commodities like eggs, meat and coffee fluctuate daily.
Walmart also says it will not use digital stickers for surveillance pricing, when different prices are set for each individual based on their data.
But Lempert thinks this is where retail is going.
Once that technology is on the shelf, who knows?
Consumers are wary of these features, so companies have to be careful with how they roll them out, says John Zhang, a marketing professor at Wharton.
If Walmart wants to do this well, they have to do it in steps.
A little consumer education, a lot of positive PR.
You could actually do better promotions.
You can set better prices.
And get consumers more comfortable with the idea that electronic stickers can mean prices could easily go up, but they could also go down.
I'm Kristen Schwab for Marketplace.
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