Comments on: Sharp LCD supermarket price tags

By: James Holloway

James Holloway — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 22:16:15 +0000

I was wondering when something like this would come along. Being a legal administrator for a supermarket - prices and such are my sole responsibility. I’ll give it five years before it gets to the UK though.

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By: Bruce

Bruce — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 02:50:27 +0000

Any idea how much the transmitter costs?

These would be cool “fridge magnets” with the days weather and calendar and ToDo list beemed out automatically by your PC.

By: stuart

stuart — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 03:24:09 +0000

Bruce, I’d hope you’d get it free if you bought a whole supermarket worth of tags!

By: Nick

Nick — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 05:49:56 +0000

Some Belgian stores have allready implemented such price tags.

By: Swedish

Swedish — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 09:04:02 +0000

The Swedish firm Pricer AB sell a ESL system since mid 1990, and the Carrefour chain has it in their stores in France, Spain and Italy!

http://www.pricer.com/

By: Erik

Erik — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 12:34:07 +0000

For those that are initiated, how are those compared to Pricer`s (the largest ESL-provider today) tags?

By: Retail guy

Retail guy — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 19:49:00 +0000

Pricer is the world leader of ESL-tags with 60% of the world market. Both Carrefour and Metro which are no1 and no2 in european retail market are among Pricers´ customers. When it comes to technology i´d say Sharp is already behind Pricer since their Dot Matrix label is already out on the market since almost a year back and it can show the bar-code on the display where the Sharp label must be prepared with a paper label (as you can see on the pictures).

Sharp is a bigger company than Pricer but starting to compete with an actor that has 10+ years experience in the retail pricing market is not easy, especially since Pricer has thousands of store installations world-wide there is a foundation for setting an industry standard when it comes to the infrastructure of the ESL-system and I don´t think Sharps size as a company is sufficient to overcome that obstacle.

By: Retail guy

Retail guy — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 20:05:05 +0000

This is the Pricer Dot Matrix label: http://www.pricer.com/templates/Page.aspx?id=279

They also have electronic paper displays: http://www.pricer.com/templates/Page.aspx?id=280

And standard LCD labels: http://www.pricer.com/templates/Page.aspx?id=194

By: Retail guy

Retail guy — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 20:07:32 +0000

SES is another competitor to Sharp in the ESL market.

http://www.ses-esl.fr/en_gmodele.htm

By: stuart

stuart — Sat, 20 Jan 2007 01:20:56 +0000

Thanks Retail guy!

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By: Dalia

Dalia — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 00:07:24 +0000

I was just wondering if I could use the pictures of the tags for my design project

By: stuart

stuart — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 00:13:01 +0000

The images are from the sources mentioned in the post. Up to you!

By: Dalia

Dalia — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 00:45:57 +0000

could you please give me the website of that source

By: stuart

stuart — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 00:48:32 +0000

“The images are from the sources mentioned in the post.”

By: Alejandro Valencia

Alejandro Valencia — Tue, 08 May 2007 14:07:53 +0000

We are very interested in distribute your new product, can you please tell me what we have to do to get from you information and demos.

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