Grocery workers union calls on newly elected Democrats to ban electronic shelf labels

America's largest market workers union wants Dems to keep food prices fair and market workers in stores.

The United Food and Commercial Workers union, which represents additional than 1.2 myriad people, issued a declaration celebrating victories of labor-backed candidates throughout the US in this year's midterm elections. It additionally called on politicians to enact law to keep digital cost tags and personalized pricing out of market stores in command to location affordability concerns and maintain jobs.

"Lawmakers should ban surveillance pricing and digital rack labels in market stores, so that shoppers are harmless from company cost gouging," UFCW chairman Milton Jones stated in the statement.

The tech has arrive under blaze this twelvemonth as retailers akin Walmart and Kroger continue to substitute printed cost tags alongside digital versions that can be updated remotely.

Last week, the Federal Trade Commission stated it ordered multiple of the largest market chains to prepared detailed reports on their pricing practices.

"Consumers deserve to cognize whether companies use their web surfing habits or another individual data to evaluation the highest cost they can accusation all consumer," FTC Chairman Andrew N. Ferguson said.

Some states have taken act against the practices. New Jersey banned surveillance pricing and put a one-year moratorium on digital labels before this year. Maryland requires retailers to fastener in prices for at smallest one endeavor day.

Retailers have defended the tools, saying they simplify a labor-intensive procedure and enhance accuracy, and that their pricing has been and volition remain fair and transparent.

Walmart and Target all issued statements final duration that stated they do not use individual information to accusation shoppers a higher price, and that they volition not in the forthcoming either. Both chains motionless recommendation personalized discounts through promotions and affiliation programs.