How could this happen? Owners of #Chamberlain #MyQ automatic garage door openers just woke up to discover that the company had confiscated valuable features overnight, and that there was nothing they could do about it.
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"But this impulse to play shell games runs up against the hard limits of physical reality: grocers just can't send an army of rollerskated teenagers around the store to reprice everything as soon as a wealthy or desperate-looking customer comes through the door."
Can't they?
I've never thought about it before, but after reading this paragraph, I'm now AMAZED that the big grocery chains haven't replaced those little price signs on the shelves with digital displays of some kind, so that they can adjust prices on the fly.
Many replies saying this exists, tho they mostly seem to be coming from outside the U.S. I've never seen them, even living until 3 months ago in the Bay Area.
Anyway, this is like when I came up with the idea for Spotify, which I did the first time I ever used Pandora, which was before I'd ever heard of Spotify, which did exist.
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