Some images in this article for those who haven’t seen them: https://www.businessinsider.com/cooler-screens-make-it-harde...
Wow, that looks terrible. I get that they want to play ads, but I don't see how these things don't reduce sales
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#62If these ever showed up in my city I would vandalize them every time I saw them, just out of pure rage and spite.
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#63Some images in this article for those who haven’t seen them: https://www.businessinsider.com/cooler-screens-make-it-harde...
Holy crap. That looks like some sort of dystopian nightmare, garishly bright screens crowding in from all sides.
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#64To 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…
There is basically nothing that would net improve UX here. Amazing that they managed to raise millions.
"invest in people, not ideas"
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#65Were these screens e-ink, wouldn't they allow for doors that are better insulated? This could yield lower power consumption, couldn't it?
On the other hand, door insulation might be insignificant if the fridge is opened often enough. Which is likely what any retailer hopes for.
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#66What a waste of energy, what a destruction of resources, what a needless cause of toxic materials in landfills. Shame on everyone involved.
Yet we, the average person, are supposed to be concerned with the environment while corporate ogres play frivolous games like selling “Cooler Screens”. I say fuck it, burn it all down, we are doomed and being sold a lie.
100s of pounds of e-waste that will be headed for the landfills in a year or two when these inevitably break. But don't worry, Walgreens no longer uses plastic bags, because they care about the earth.
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#67Is 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".
It's like engagement metrics on apps. Yes, you get a short-term engagement boost, but ultimately you push the customer away, and they end up going places without this.
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#68Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Boycotts don't work and it's hopelessly idealistic to think they do.
What happens if you boycott your closest petrol station, spend extra cash, time and CO2 to reach the next closest one? You've penalised yourself, and the environment.
You may or may not convince other people to do the same, but the drop in revenue may not be noticed, or not get attributed correctly, or might be more than offset by the extra revenue from the adverts.
Meanwhile the replacement place that you're using notices that people seem to be tolerating the annoying adverts so they decide to do the same.
Direct action is likely to be more effective.
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#69Is 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".
I stopped going to my local station brand that blares ads non-stop over loudspeakers while pumping. Nobody ever measures lost sales due to annoyed customers, it contradicts someone else's project, politics. Like that website that you immediately close when it bombards you with engagement popups.
> I stopped going to my local station brand that blares ads non-stop over loudspeakers while pumping.
I worry about the feedback loop here. You stopped going because of the ads, but unless the person making the decisions knows that, then these things don't change. I don't have a solution.
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#70Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Insulating glass better doesn't usually involve making the glass thicker; glass is a reasonably good heat conductor. It usually involves more, thinner sheets of glass stacked with air gaps between them. Argon is often used instead of air (nitrogen/oxygen) because it is a better insulator.