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Re: Cooler screens

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Post by photonthug »

taberiand wrote: post #38
m463 wrote: post #14

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?

Everyone hates it, and no wonder since frankly it is kind of violent and rape'y. No one has ever been forced to sit through captive-audience advertising and said to themselves "I love getting my ear and eye-holes hijacked against my will, hail corporate".

Re: Cooler screens

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Post by verinus »

MichaelZuo wrote: post #82
briHass wrote: post #70

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Adding extra layers of glass increases the thickness and weight of the entire glass assembly, which is colloquially what we refer to as glass thickness in North America. Maybe it's different from where your from?

well in here in Austria we have tripple-glass-sheet windows that can be easily opened...

Re: Cooler screens

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Post by argiopetech »

wongarsu wrote: post #61
pimlottc wrote: post #2

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

Perhaps the advertising revenue makes up for lost sales...

Re: Cooler screens

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Post by bombcar »

MichaelZuo wrote: post #60
rglullis wrote: post #43

Earlier 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.

You can make incredibly heavy doors that are quite easy to open, it just costs money to design the hinges.

If you really want to be energy efficient, you'd switch to chest freezers/coolers, as they don't "spill" all the "cold" every time you open them.

Or at least doors where you can open the top or bottom half instead of the whole door.

But the energy expended is likely quite small, much less than the energy expended in upgrading anything.

Re: Cooler screens

#95

Post by ToucanLoucan »

sspiff wrote: post #16

A fun aside: Cooler Screens, the company making these, used to be the CEO of Walgreens, and Walgreens is their only "whale" customer. Walgreens began to sour on the idea of the idea of these screens, and the current CEO basically cancelled the whole deal when he came in, calling them ugly, costly and ineffective. Cooler Screens has been forced to take back many of the screens, which are custom made to the size of the…

> A fun aside: Cooler Screens, the company making these, used to be the CEO of Walgreens, and Walgreens is their only "whale" customer.

Suddenly this absolutely brain-dead idea catching any traction at all with any business suddenly at least makes a tiny bit of sense.

Not a lot. But a tiny bit.

Re: Cooler screens

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Post by bombcar »

lucideer wrote: post #15
skrebbel wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sounds like a bar with a great atmosphere.

Typically the bigger dive bars or pub-club chain types; definitely an atmosphere many enjoy, though very much a matter of taste. And/or sports bars.

Now there would be a use for these - imagine a wall of them along the side of the bar, with the game currently being watched spread across them all.

Only annoyance would be when the bartender has to open the door during a touchdown.

Re: Cooler screens

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Post by lucideer »

lucideer wrote: post #9
skrebbel wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks. I thought the article was some sort of future fiction thing but apparently this is real?

I've seen these in bars for a few years now - the beer bottle fridges behind the bar will run animated ads for the beer brands in the fridge (mostly Heineken)

Edit: correction on my above comment (past editing deadline).

The animated doors I've seen in bars are transparent LCDs, but the Walgreens screens in the businessinsider article above appear to be opaque & have a full (thick) monitor backing when opened. So they're... even less futuristic???

An example of the product I've seen in bars: http://damoccoolers.com/ - notably the contents of the cooler remain clearly visible most of the time.

Re: Cooler screens

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Post by sixothree »

m463 wrote: post #14

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 are the worst. I had to stop for gas in a (relatively) shady neighborhood pretty late one night. I was the only person getting gas and it was relatively quiet around. Though people were walking around and such.

All attention was drawn directly towards me with this screen blaring advertisements at me. I as very much "put on display" in a way I did not enjoy.

As far as walgreens goes. I hate dealing with them. They charge premium prices for every item. But their parking lot is always dirty and unkempt; and their employees are less than helpful; and there is always a line. I'd rather just go to CVS and use the self checkout.

Re: Cooler screens

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Post by ben1040 »

Just loved this quote from the Cooler Screen people:

>When you think about it within the context of "I'm in front of an ice cream door and I want to buy," you have the ability to isolate the message to exactly what a consumer is focused on at this point in time based on the distance that they are from the door.

This also is achieved by a sign taped to the glass saying “ice cream, buy one get one free,” but where’s the VC money in that?

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