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Cooler screens
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#213In an internet full of low-effort outrage hot takes, I have to say I love (and miss) this kind of writing style that's polemical but witty and restrained. One of my favorite quotes: > "Age-old advertising technology would use the context that you are in front of the ice cream door as a trigger to display the ice cream through the door. In the era of the Cooler Screen, though, the ice cream itself is hidden safely out…
> Cooler Screens' CRO, in the same interview, describes the devices as "a six-foot canvas with a 4K resolution where brands can share their message with a captive audience."
> I'm not sure that we're really captive in Walgreens, although the constant need to track down a Walgreens correction officer to unlock the cell in which they have placed the hand lotion does create that vibe.
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#214Earlier quoted context omitted.
I made a positive statement to myself, as I left my teens, that I would never become that old man that hides from technology and gets left behind. But boy, I think I'm getting there. Between crap like this and the massively unethical "gig labor" economy and VR headsets, I want no part of what the world is becoming.
I think the core difference is that as a teen we see people reject tech and assume that it's the tech itself being rejected. That there is some underlying progress being shunned. As an adult I realize that the tech is a layer of gloss and glamour on actively making the world worse than I knew it could be. I didn't have that perspective as a teen because as a teen I hadn't known the world.
Ex: "Sonny, I'm not against people communicating easily with their friends and sharing pictures, I'm against what I see as a wave of addictive gamified narcissistic codependency."
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Destroying someone else's property is seldom the answer.
It is so commonly the answer languages acquired the specific word "sabotage" to describe it.
It is so commonly we also have the word "murder" to describe murder.
Does it make murder right? Certainly not.
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#216I first saw some sort of cooler screen in a grocery store in Bangkok, I think around 2019. The door was actually transparent, it was just the pixel layer, no reflectors or lights (light coming from the luminance of delicious products lit themselves by traditional in-cabinet lighting). As I recall the imagery was a loop of a pleasant airline attendant-looking lady offering a coke bottle. Not sure I have been to a drug…
Indeed, these are full screens mounted between the glass door and the customer’s eyes. The Walgreens near me had them installed recently and they were generally functional - lit, animated, switched to inventory when I approached - but the inventory data was wrong. I wanted ice cream, one brand/flavor was available, but I opened the door to find it totally empty. Had to open it to know that the “available” ice cream was not actually available.
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#217Earlier quoted context omitted.
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 .
A screen+camera would actually enable insanely good insulation, compared to glass. A 4cm/1.6" PUR sheet weights next to nothing and has a thermal transmittance (aka u-value) of 0.4 W/(m²K). That's about twice as good as modern, triple glazed windows.
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#218There's a Walgreens right in front of my apartment. In the ~3 years I've lived here I've been in there ~3 times, mostly because of these screens
The screens bring you in once a year? Or do they prevent you visiting more?
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#219Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
We have a restaurant that only took cash for a long time. Because I usually pay everything with card, I have a card-only wallet and rarely any significant amount of cash on me. There is no ATM in the vicinity (it's in a small suburb).
The second time we didn't go there while passing that place, I dropped them a friendly mail. I must have been not the only one, because now they accept cards.
Sometimes talking to people helps. Though with a franchise there might be no-one on site with the power to "just fix" things. Regarding the gas station: Maybe charge at home instead? :P
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#220Earlier quoted context omitted.
I work in digital signage. We don't do these, but we do have other products aimed at retail. Most of these displays are powered by run of the mill Windows machines. Often they are just standard off the shelf hardware, which when packed in an enclosed space with other electronics, and wrapped with cardboard, doesn't last too long. Even the screens are often just standard bigbox store TVs, although some manufactures do…
I used to work digital signage in retail, though almost no refrigeration. And yes usually we backed our signs with normal small form factor pcs. Mac minis, nucs, raspberry-pis. We were demoed these screens by one of those display providers (probably Planar) probably 8 years back... If these are the 'transparent' door displays my understanding is that they are essentially just normal displays without backlights/or tha…
I also worked in digital signage a few years back. We had a similar kind of refrigerator in our office, likely with an LG screen. The door/screen was transparent glass like the old fashioned ones and a layer of LCD. The upside of that kind of design is that the see-through door still works if the screen is off. And of course, you actually would see the real contents of the refrigerator once it's digital signage content deactivated (e.g. detected people by camera). On top of that, depending on the animation you would see through darker parts of the door to get a peek of the actual products inside (useful if you're unsure what you're looking at).
IIRC we displayed our office calendar on it, among other things.
On the other hand, the screens in the article seems to have made away completely with the glass, leading to completely opaque, black rectangles if they are not running. What a mess.