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I have seen these in the wild. They're hilariously awful. Best thing about them is the computer.rip article which is entertaining and well written.
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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.
Maybe it's different from where your from?
In the cooler aisle I was just looking for some ice cream, and I had to open 5-6 doors to find it. Not only were the displays wrong, upon opening the coolers they were mostly empty.
It was one of those times where I felt like I could be living in some sort of technological satire.
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?
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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.
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".
> 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.
I've never seen them displaying ads, just big graphics saying "WATER" or "ICE CREAM" or "MILK" or whatever when there's nobody in front of them. And I find it kind of fascinating how, when they do notice someone's in front of them and deign to switch to showing the inventory, my brain just completely slides off of the crisp pictures of the drinks on a bright white background. Even before the first time I opened one up to find that it was inaccurate, it felt like my brain just knew that the inventory would not necessarily match what would actually be in there, so why bother wasting energy parsing it?
(And this is with them all working, largely as designed.)
I am glad to know they are on the way out. "'Vegas' in a derogatory way" is a good summation of my reaction to them.
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Bloomberg Businessweek has run a series of articles about the problems at Walgreens.
https://www.google.com/search?q=walgreens+bloomberg
They just settled a shareholder lawsuit over the failed takeover of Rite Aid.
(I patronize Walgreens quite a lot because they are one of the closest stores to my location, mine used to be a Rite Aid.)
Before that they merged with the Boots chain in the U.K. and got the idea that they could increase sales in the front of the store (e.g. not pharmacy) but they didn't seem to understand the "cost disease" in the U.S. that makes health care an order of magnitude more expensive than anything else such that CVS, doubling down on health care, had the right strategy.
The pharmacy staff at our Walgreens deal heroically with a huge amount of brokenness, there was the time I needed a prescription filled in a hurry and they called around and found a competing pharmacy that had it in stock and sent over all my data including my insurance for one of those "seamless" experiences that marketers are always talking about. Then there was the time I came on Friday and they told me they could have it ready in 30 minutes but I said "No, I'll come tomorrow because I want to make it to a football game" and they said it would be ready the next day.
Well the next day they weren't able to fill any prescriptions because of some electrical failure that had technicians working in there. It turned out the pharmacist, because of a worker shortage, had driven two hours to get to work that morning! He also told me that they couldn't fill the prescription just yet anyway because my refill only became available the next day to which my reply was "I wanted to get the ball started early in case something went wrong."
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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.
Some images in this article for those who haven’t seen them: https://www.businessinsider.com/cooler-screens-make-it-harde...
> Out of order, please do not open
> [opens door]
> [finds food]
And it's not like it's the cooling unit that broke, you can see when the door is open it's still one big area connected to the working one next to it.