内容摘要：The Warfords’ lawyers did not immediately return phone and email messages Monday. Phone numbers for the Warfords listed in public records were no longer in service.

The Warfords’ lawyers did not immediately return phone and email messages Monday. Phone numbers for the Warfords listed in public records were no longer in service.

Still, the U.S. industry is charging ahead., the nation’s largest grocer and retailer, hopes to have digital price labels at 2,300 U.S. stores by 2026.

is expanding the use of digital labels this year after testing them at 20 stores.is testing the labels in nearly 50 stores.Companies say electronic price labels have tremendous advantages. Walmart says it used to take employees two days to change paper price labels on the 120,000 items it has in a typical store. With digital tags, it takes a few minutes.

The labels can also be useful. Some haveto see recipes or nutrition information. Instacart has a system in thousands of U.S. stores, including

and Schnucks, that flashes a light on the digital tag when Instacart shoppers are nearby to help them find products.

Ahold Delhaize’s Albert Heijn supermarket chain in the Netherlands and Belgium has been testing an artificial intelligence-enabled tool since 2022 that marks down prices on its digital labels every 15 minutes for products nearing expiration. The system has reduced more than 250 tons of food waste annually, the company said.However, the arrangement between Talen and Amazon — called a “behind the meter” connection — has been held up by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission in the first such case to come before the agency.

It has raised questions over whether diverting power to higher-paying customers will leave enough for others and whether it’s fair to excuse big power users from paying for the grid.For Big Tech, plugging energy-hungry data centers directly into a power plant can take years off their development timelines and is a much faster route to procuring power than having to connect to the congested electricity grid.

It’s not clear when FERC, which blocked the deal on a procedural grounds, will decide the matter, leaving in limbo regulatory treatment of the deal and others that likely would follow.Already in Pennsylvania, Microsoft announced a deal with the owner of the shuttered