On: Global IT outage shows dangers of cashless society...

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> I'm not sure any of the large US stores I shop in have a price tag on the item any longer.

But it’s in the shelf surely? Probably on an e-ink display.

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But what good does that do at the checkout if computer systems are down? And no supermarket I frequent has eink displays on the aisles.

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Besides which the central shelf label server is probably also down.

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And do you expect the cashier to walk to the shelf for every single item in order to look up prices?