I guess I'll keep wearing my masks, and maybe add sunglasses as well.
Sorry, we replaced that old technology, “see-through glass”
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#232I think part of the reasoning behind this is also that people are less likely to buy from a half-empty shelf. That's why markets put so much effort into constant restocking. This way, the shelf can always look full while needing less restocking.
But what if the employee can't see that the shelve is empty and forgets to restock? Then people will open the door and the product will actually not be there which is incredibly frustrating.
Re: Sorry, we replaced that old technology, “see-through glass”
#233In the '90s I was in a technology based art class at CMU. An artist talked about a project they wanted to do: a music streamer, but it would use GPS to know it's location, and play music from the local culture, to keep you connected to your surroundings. Another student said: "You mean, a radio?"
Yes, but for the internet!
Re: Sorry, we replaced that old technology, “see-through glass”
#234These look like they'd be fun to break.
Re: Sorry, we replaced that old technology, “see-through glass”
#235Earlier quoted context omitted.
I would imagine this is the kind of thing you'd commission if your job title was, say, chief innovation officer at a soft drinks company. What else would you do?
try to find a artificial sweetener that was indistinguishable from sugar. That would be the holy grail for soft drinks.
I'm pretty sure they've been trying, but our bodies have evolved to distinguish actual sugar from anything else for a very long time.
Re: Sorry, we replaced that old technology, “see-through glass”
#236Imagine stocking this and having to make sure the products inside even sort of line up with the view from the aisle. You’d either need to open and close the damn thing 20 times to check your work, or you’d need to update the listings every time your inventory shifted. There’s probably one person in the entire store that knows how to update the displays.
Don’t we ask retail workers to do enough already? They’ve just dealt with a pandemic for Christ’s sake.
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#237Earlier quoted context omitted.
Toaster plus is 5.99 if you subject yourself to an add prior to toasting.
Note that our Face Detection technology will be ensuring that you pay attention during the full duration of the ad.
"A watched pot never boils, but watched toast finishes faster." Black box testing has found that the toaster's heating coils are throttled when eye tracking doesn't find anybody watching the ad.
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#238Earlier quoted context omitted.
Thankfully my seven year old iToaster hasn’t succumbed to the same fate. Yet.
The iTailer will shutdown all servers for that model on Jan 10, 2021, rendering it a glorified paperweight. Sorry. They said the next newer model of that will no longer receive updates at the same time.
Jan 10, 2021 - back in the good old days when see-through glass was still the norm.
Re: Sorry, we replaced that old technology, “see-through glass”
#239I’m lost in these comments. It’s been years that opaque vending machines representing pictures of the content at eye level are out in the world [0] and there’s so many people reacting as if that is the rubicon that should never be crossed. I’m not in favor of more animated shinny ads shoved into our eyeballs, but we already had the screens everywhere and there already seemed to be no way to go back without town regul…
There are several differences between the two:
- Vending machines don't stop displaying what they sell to show ads
- Vending machines that were not designed by monsters show you things that are not in stock anymore, this thing does
- Vending machines often aim at impulse buying in locations where you don't really have alternative. Here, we're talking about actual stores, to which people often go several times a week. That, at least to me, make it twice as frustrating when it does not work as show in the tweets.
Re: Sorry, we replaced that old technology, “see-through glass”
#240There's way too much cynicism here and a lack of insight as to how consumer retail works. 'Privacy invasion' aside there's a lot of obvious benefits to this. 1) Impactful Displays - this will increase sales. In your local coffee shop, going from the static nice pictures, to 'active displays' unambiguously generates more attention. It's a little bit like having 'nice photo' menus vs 'empty menus' for regular dining. O…
> generates more attention Fuck you. That's really all I have to say about that. I'm sorry this comment doesn't pass the general HN guidelines, but I hope someday you realize why you should feel ashamed for even thinking that this is a good idea.
Ad-hominem aside, I don't even know what you're getting at.
You realize that 100% of the packaging in the store is designed for that reason? And it's why everything isn't in brown paper bags?