Sorry, we replaced that old technology, “see-through glass”
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Re: Sorry, we replaced that old technology, “see-through glass”
#2I hope that these things don't periodically switch from showing the actual products & prices to showing a full-screen ad for something. A movie theater near me does that with their screen-based menus. Very annoying to be trying to decide what you want and suddenly have the menu vanish.
It's a bit sad to think how wasteful these are. Not just the waste produced by producing the screens and powering them all day, but the fact that you can't reliably see what's in there by looking means people will just learn to open it and browse with the door open, letting the cold air out.
Edit: Also, does anyone know what the cameras are for, if not facial recognition or CCTV? I'm guessing it's eye tracking for market research. I suppose that could be anonymized and aggregated on-device in a privacy-preserving way, but you'd have to take their word for it.
Re: Sorry, we replaced that old technology, “see-through glass”
#3I hope that these things don't periodically switch from showing the actual products & prices to showing a full-screen ad for something. A movie theater near me does that with their screen-based menus. Very annoying to be trying to decide what you want and suddenly have the menu vanish. It's a bit sad to think how wasteful these are. Not just the waste produced by producing the screens and powering them all day, but t…
They absolutely do. That's the main point of them in fact. Revenue for the supermarket. But really it's not a downgrade. Every package is designed to basically be an ad already.
Re: Sorry, we replaced that old technology, “see-through glass”
#4And I thought with Juicero we had reached peak stupid…
Re: Sorry, we replaced that old technology, “see-through glass”
#5A boring dystopia indeed.
One day someone will be hunched over on a sidewalk, dying of thirst, and a patrolling Nestle®-branded drone senses (using state-of-the-art machine learning "customer needs" technology) his predicament. The drone hovers there projecting a holo-ad about Nestles hot product "Nectar of Life" which is just water from the region's last remaining aquifer cut with brackish water from the coast. The ad ends with a map to the nearest vending machine and buzzes off for it's next engagement. The man, too weak to move, just sits there, nothing he can do except wait for another ad drone to come by.
Re: Sorry, we replaced that old technology, “see-through glass”
#6I hope that these things don't periodically switch from showing the actual products & prices to showing a full-screen ad for something. A movie theater near me does that with their screen-based menus. Very annoying to be trying to decide what you want and suddenly have the menu vanish. It's a bit sad to think how wasteful these are. Not just the waste produced by producing the screens and powering them all day, but t…
In my city we have this issue with the screens in the subway trains. There are two screens,
* one always works and shows ads and selected news
* the second one is supposed to show the next stations and connections, except for when it doesn't and shows ads.. for many minutes at a time.
Re: Sorry, we replaced that old technology, “see-through glass”
#7Hopefully the prices are at least up-to-date. I oftent skip buying items if their prices aren't listed.
Re: Sorry, we replaced that old technology, “see-through glass”
#8How is this any better than looking at the real product on the shelves? I mean, why did the shop want to pay for it?
Re: Sorry, we replaced that old technology, “see-through glass”
#9How is this any better than looking at the real product on the shelves? I mean, why did the shop want to pay for it?
Maybe it saves electricity for the refrigerator because people open the door more infrequently?
Re: Sorry, we replaced that old technology, “see-through glass”
#10How is this any better than looking at the real product on the shelves? I mean, why did the shop want to pay for it?
Maybe it saves electricity for the refrigerator because people open the door more infrequently?
Or do they open the door more frequently to see what's actually inside the case?