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Re: Cooler screens

#51
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> The gas pumps that play advertisements while your car fills are incredibly obnoxious and makes me regret being a customer. Deface them. This is legitimate defense.

No, this is how frustrated children solve their problems. Please don't recommend it.

How would you go about solving this problem then?

Re: Cooler screens

#52
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Is anyone else repulsed by this stuff? The gas pumps that play advertisements while your car fills are incredibly obnoxious and makes me regret being a customer. I think of "tax what you want less of".

More to the point, is anyone not repulsed by this stuff?

If it was well done I don't suppose I'd care? The moving and flashing would be annoying. E-ink seems a better fit if the glass was just too low annr factor.

Re: Cooler screens

#53
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> The gas pumps that play advertisements while your car fills are incredibly obnoxious and makes me regret being a customer. Deface them. This is legitimate defense.

Destroying someone else's property is seldom the answer.

You can deface them nondestructively. Just tape a piece of paper over them.

Re: Cooler screens

#54
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No, this is how frustrated children solve their problems. Please don't recommend it.

You haven't provided a better solution.

Why would I need to provide a better solution to property damage? It should be obvious, vote with your dollar, don't pump gas there.

Re: Cooler screens

#55

I was assuming this was some sort of smart shelves idea: you just walk up to the image, scan a QR code, and in the back a human/robot adds your shopping to a cart that you pick up on the way out, and you're automatically billed. But it's just pictures of what's behind the door when you open it?

Yep. I can't see any upside in those things, every aspect of it just sucks. The only way this could be even worse and more hostile is if it was used for flashing advertisements.

They do. So you can't even see what's inside until you finish the ad.

Re: Cooler screens

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post #51
post #44

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No, this is how frustrated children solve their problems. Please don't recommend it.

How would you go about solving this problem then?

What problem, annoying ads playing at a gas station? Gee I don't know, maybe not pump at gas station chains that use ads? Even as annoying as they might be, I can hold in my inner angst to deface property for the 4mins it takes to pump up my car.

Re: Cooler screens

#57
I have very rarely had the urge to vandalise something, and never acted upon it, but this screens might tip me over the edge!

Re: Cooler screens

#58
I encountered these at a fairly typical Walgreens about 2 years ago. My initial reaction was "worst idea ever". I don't recall any of the screens not working, but it did make me feel like the entire shopping experience was worse, and the screens added no value". I will sometimes buy a drink at a drugstore when picking up a prescription or some sundry items, but these screens just discourage me from wasting time with that whole process, the UX is really bad. If they were playing ads I would actively avoid that entire aisle.

Re: Cooler screens

#59
post #7

To be fair, this technology could have been introduced in a way that benefits the customer. Some products are smaller than the others, making them harder to spot. Having a well organized and clearly visible directory that is also a guiding system might help. Then again, stores like this are already doing their best to confuse, with those screens or without. No reason to believe screens have been introduced to help th…

We’re a few decades into a climate catastrophe; the world consumes far too many resources and energy. If nothing changes fundamentally, our grandchildren are going to live in a dystopian wasteland. And yet somehow screens in front of fridges seem to be a good idea to some?

Re: Cooler screens

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If they enable thicker insulation, it’s possible this may actually save power. Thas the only I can think for doing this.

You know what else enables thicker insulation and doesn't require a computer screen and e-waste? Thicker insulation .

It's not feasible to make glass doors on coolers much thicker, or else they'd be too heavy to move for a significant portion of the population without a motor or hydraulics.
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