Blog - Electronic Shelf Labels

How learnings from the pandemic will influence automation trends in 2022

Automation is likely to be high on the list of many retailers as they look to 2022. By automating key in-store tasks, stores can function even during extraordinary circumstances.

The New Retail Model: Real-time Decision-Making

To keep pace with consumers who are shopping seamlessly across physical and digital channels, retailers need to be increasingly focused on using technology that narrows the gap between offline and online.

Pricer recognized in Retail CIO Radar 2022

Pricer has been recognized by Retail Today magazine as a leader in the Smart Shelf category in Retail CIO Radar 2022, a first-of-its kind annual list of most innovative & transformative retail technology solution providers.

Don’t celebrate New Year’s eve with your Christmas turkey

We all love the odd Christmas movie and the chase around town to find the last turkey for dinner. But let’s keep it fiction and use technology to ensure there is enough for everyone and eliminate waste.

Pricer Shelf Controller – a remote controller for easy shelf edge in-store management

Pricer Shelf Controller tackles the challenge of making new employees in store work efficiently and quickly be productive.

Electronic shelf labels provide the foundation for retail digitisation

To keep pace with consumers who are shopping seamlessly across physical and digital channels, retailers have increasingly focused on using technology that narrows the gap between offline and online over the last 18 months.

Pricer and Lifvs win RTIH Innovation Awards

Pricer and it’s customer Lifvs have won the 2021 RTIH Innovation Awards in the category “Bricks and mortar innovation”.

Pricer is awarded for its innovation of the digitalization of retail

Pricer France has been awarded the “Prix d’Excellence 2021” from the Swedish Chamber of Commerce (CCSF) in France for its innovation of the digitalization of retail.

Why electronic shelf labels are a little-known retail efficiency secret

Insider Trends’ Cate Trotter interviewed Pricer’s chief marketing officer Duncan Potter about why the benefits of electronic shelf labels go far beyond pricing and just how retailers should be using them to save time and drive efficiency.

Will Black Friday end in a Blue Monday for retailers?

Black Friday will be a test case for retailers in terms of their ability to fulfil demand in a time of supply chain disruption, and also for customers in terms of whether they will put up with poor availability or shop elsewhere.

Pricer shorlisted for BHB-BranchenAward 2022

Pricer has been shortlisted for the industry award BHB-BranchenAward 2022 in Germany, in the ”Best of Process” category for its geopositioning function of the electronic shelf label (ESL) system.

Pandemic Prompts European Shoppers To Move To Own-Label Groceries

Pandemic-fuelled price sensitivity is making European grocery shoppers less loyal to brands, prompting shoppers to switch to own-brand products.

Lifvs and Pricer shortlisted in the RTIH Innovation Awards 2021

Lifvs and Pricer have been shortlisted in the RTIH Innovation Awards 2021 in the bricks-and-mortar category.

Pricer at your service, as a service

In the coming years, progressive retailers will use Pricer SaaS solution to reach new levels of in-store digitalisation and innovation.

Objectif Croissance avec Pricer - Gilles Gagnier

From price updates to key in-store solutions for smart retail

As a guest on the BFM Business platform as part of the “Objectif Croissance” [Objective: Growth] program, Gilles Gagnier, Deputy Managing Director in France for Pricer, gives us his perspective on the role and evolution of electronic labeling in retailers’ commercial strategies.

UK retailers are keen to give ESLs another shot

Electronic shelf labels arrived in the UK 30 years ago, and haven’t made much dent in the market since. But that might be about to change.

30 years of ESL – from the shelf to the heart of digitalization

Read the story of how Pricer led the way to store digitalization and how electronic shelf labels today are the eyes and ears of the store.

The sensitive shelf

Sensitivity to price and promotions among consumers is at an all-time high post pandemic, according to new research. So how can retailers react quickly to give their customers the information and reassurance they are seeking.

Paris Retail Week 2021: Keynote by Pricer and l’Entrepôt du Bricolage

As part of Paris Retail Week 2021, Pricer is a keynote speaker on “Electronic shelf labels as driver for in-store efficiency”, on September 28, 2021.

Pricer nominated to the SaaS company of the year award

The award aims at strengthening the SaaS community in Sweden and highlight fast growing and sustainable companies who can show the way for the next generation SaaS companies.

Pricer is part of decades of global retail innovation – from Sweden

With innovative and advanced technology, Pricer is part of a Swedish retail innovation miracle, which has transformed the global retail industry.

Sustainability conscious consumers and retailers driver for ESL solutions

Increased e-commerce, price conscious consumers and the need to combat food waste are trends that drive the need for store digitalization.

Don’t cry over spilled milk – but shed some tears over rotten tomatoes

Pricer enables several of the world’s foremost retail grocery chains to be industry leaders in reducing food waste.

If Click & Collect is Here to Stay – You Need to Find Your Way

Those who have postponed the digitalisation of their stores until now, have a journey ahead of them, first establishing the basic infrastructure to support click and collect.

Pricer – proud partner to Carrefour on their customer centric and digitalization journey

As partner to Carrefour since 20 years, with renewed trust for several years to come, Pricer is extremely proud to support this international retailer on their digitalization journey.

Why nobody ever got fired for buying ESLs

Nobody ever got fired for investing in a flexible and scalable platform that can communicate in real-time between the core (chain decision makers) and the edge (the network of stores).

Future fit – How to make the sports store deliver more value for retailers and their customers

The modern sports store has a lot of work to do to communicate with and sell to a customer whose expectations have never been more demanding, particularly since the great shift to digital during 2020.

30 Years of Bringing Trust to Retail

As Pricer now celebrates 30 years in business, it is with great pride that we can look back on a long and successful period of bringing trust to retail.

Innovative technology for a more interactive in-store shopping experience

The shelf should no longer be seen just as a display to hold products – by digitalising the shelf-edge, it can now become a source of interaction and information.

Rocket scientists and retail executives have a lot in common

What do airplanes, space rockets and advanced car manufacturing plants have in common? They all rely on optical wireless communication.

Store Associates – Then and Now

Store associates, the unsung heroes of retail, often work behind the scenes to ensure our shopping experience is both optimised and extraordinary. Luckily, ever since Pricer’s founding 30 years ago in 1991, an amazing innovation in retail has made the job easier.

“To Me, Change Is Positive”

In September 2021, Susanna Zethelius, will become the new CFO of Pricer. In an interview with StrategicCFO360.com in May, she talks about her new job, why there are so few female CFOs and how the position has changed in recent years.

The Rise of the Digital Store

When once we would have talked about digital as being the retail disruptor now, as customers increasingly take control of their in-store journeys, they are now the force for change retailers need to adapt to.

Dynamic Pricing Within Retail Can Bridge the E-gap

Physical stores are often just beginning to explore the benefits of dynamic pricing. But it’s an important quest if we want to bridge the gap between physical and online retail.

The future of retail is cloudy… but with patches of sunshine

Clouds are everywhere, except maybe for retail. Until recently at least, now we see more and more physical stores moving their operations to the cloud.

The information revolution at the shelf edge

Shoppers demand to know more and more about the products they buy, so how can retailers build this new-found need for knowledge into the buying journey.

Pricer shortlisted for Retail Systems Awards 2021

Pricer has been shortlisted to win a 2021 Retail Systems Award, in the category In-Store Technology of the Year.

Pricer’s CEO Helena Holmgren interviewed in the Swedish trade magazine Fri Köpenskap

In February 2021 Pricer’s CEO Helena Holmgren was interviewed in the Swedish trade magazine Fri Köpenskap about the growing ESL market and new technology.

Is Digital Transformation Vital for DIY Stores to Survive?

DIY needs to accelerate its digital transformation to go further in simplifying the customer journey, especially in the context of Covid.

Pricer interviewed in Dagens Nyheter

Dagens Nyheter published a long article on February 3, 2021, on the store of the future, which features Pricer and our customer Matvärlden outside Stockholm.

One night installation of ESLs – a true team effort

So, is a one-night installation of electronic shelf labels in a store of 12,000 labels even possible? Yes, for Pricer it is.

2021 will (still) not be “normal”

It is clear that 2021 will not be a normal year, whatever normal is nowadays. We have listed three ways we predict retail will change in the coming year.

Dark Stores Could Be A Shining Light For Apparel Stores

Click & Collect offers an opportunity for the apparel industry to adapt to changing consumer preferences and create a delivery model that is in line with demand.

A Digital Winner

The Swedish business magazine Affärsvärlden has made an analysis of Pricer’s share, listed on Nasdaq Stockholm, Small cap.

Pricer shortlisted for 2020 RTIH Innovation Awards

Pricer is shortlisted in the ”Technology Vendor of the Year” category of the 2020 RTIH Innovation Awards.

Electronic Shelf Label Survey: Retail Impact of the First Pandemic Wave

As one of the privileged suppliers to retailers, JRTech Solutions conducted an online survey to review the effectiveness of electronic labels in the retail industry in a pandemic situation.

A Million Reasons To Use SaaS

The SaaS model gives retailers both flexibility and scale, to rapidly deploy, optimise and develop functionality centrally without losing the ability to deliver in local markets.

Infrared Light In Retail – Saving Energy And Time

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From Price Management To In-store Digitalization Leader

Let us guide you through some of our popular use cases…

ESLs Are A Foundational Part Of The Retail Technology Ecosystem

Pricer’s CEO, Helena Holmgren, in an interview with Der Aktionär, a German shareholder magazine.

Think Beyond Barriers And Masks For a Safe In-store Experience

It is thus essential for #retailers to work harder in getting consumers more comfortable visiting stores.

Dynamic Pricing Embraced By Brick-and-mortar Stores

The store has swapped traditional price labels for ESLs, electronic shelf labels, which use e-paper to display prices that can then be changed, within seconds, at the press of a button.

Webinar On-demand

This webinar is now available on-demand: Advanced Tactics To Win The Price War with Price Optimization and ESLs.

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White Paper: Near-field communication (NFC) in retail

If you want to find out more about the benefits of using NFC solutions for the shelf edge, and what key criteria should be evaluated, please download our free whitepaper.