Grocery workers union calls on Dems to ban electronic shelf labels
Business Insider · Dominick Reuter ·
The largest grocery workers union is taking aim at digital price tags following the success of Democratic candidates in the midterm elections.
America's largest grocery workers union wants Dems to keep food prices fair and grocery workers in stores.
The United Food and Commercial Workers union, which represents more than 1.2 million people, issued a statement celebrating victories of labor-backed candidates across the US in this year's midterm elections. It also called on politicians to enact legislation to keep digital price tags and personalized pricing out of grocery stores in order to address affordability concerns and preserve jobs.
"Lawmakers should ban surveillance pricing and electronic shelf labels in grocery stores, so that shoppers are safe from corporate price gouging," UFCW president Milton Jones said in the statement.
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