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I remember a company patented an invention where people would have to shout at the TV to get the advertisement to stop.
Would it allow or reject “FUCK COKE!”. Probably force-repeat the ad.
It offers a Pepsi instead.
Sorry, we replaced that old technology, “see-through glass”
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Re: Sorry, we replaced that old technology, “see-through glass”
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Personalization so they can never be returned, right? --- Pepperidge Farms.... D: NOOOOOO https://www.heb.com/product-detail/pepperidge-farm-original-... My grandmother made those in her Sunbeam toaster before loading them with room-temperature butter and Laura Scudder's smooth peanut butter. (Yes, my grandmother kept butter at room temperature but refrigerated the eggs. Go figure... grandmothers.)
How you gonna spread cold butter? :)
Yeah, standard American kitchen: butter on the counter (in a semi-airtight butter tray) and eggs in the fridge.
Re: Sorry, we replaced that old technology, “see-through glass”
#263I do not blame cooler screen for selling this technology to anyone. But I want everyone to consider how much it takes to bring about a technology like this to a grocery store. If this is any of the big chain groceries, the manager doesn't even have the authority to put a sticker on the glass door. This was vetted by hundreds of people and none of them thought... glass? Business class tickets were purchased, hotels we…
It's an ad platform plain and simple; that's the whole value proposition. So I imagine every pitch, every meeting was about that. And every store that uses it will be doing it to get a cut of the ad revenue. It's true that it's lousy at being glass, but that's like saying smallpox blankets were a lousy way to make friends with Native Americans. The shittiness of it, in other words, was the goal all along, and any res…
Why not just charge the existing products for access to premium shelf space and classify that as advertising revenue? I don't see the point of putting ads in between the customer and what was already effectively an ad (i.e. the packaging/product itself).
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> will be replaced with an ad I'm not sure what that means. These already are ads. They are directly advertising the products literally inside the case.
> They are directly advertising the products literally inside the case. Well, yeah, but glass would be just as effective and much cheaper. So they're doing something in addition to that. If the requirement was "display the goods we have for sale" then glass beats this thing in virtually every way. Cheaper, minimal maintenance, no firmware updates, and most of all: familiar. But these are going to be: * Tracking consu…
Just open the door before you look
Re: Sorry, we replaced that old technology, “see-through glass”
#265The year is 2050 and your dingy old toaster has finally given up it's last crumbs. You hop onto Amazon in hopes of finding a suitable replacement as there's no longer any box stores you can travel to. Dumb appliances have been phased out and newer internet connected appliances have taken over. It's better for the consumer they claim. Not wanting an overtly fancy contraption you pick a no frills unit that includes a t…
AI enabled toaster: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRq_SAuQDec
(from Red Dwarf)
Re: Sorry, we replaced that old technology, “see-through glass”
#266The year is 2050 and your dingy old toaster has finally given up it's last crumbs. You hop onto Amazon in hopes of finding a suitable replacement as there's no longer any box stores you can travel to. Dumb appliances have been phased out and newer internet connected appliances have taken over. It's better for the consumer they claim. Not wanting an overtly fancy contraption you pick a no frills unit that includes a t…
WiFi password? Even by 2035ish it’d come with integrated mobile data so the user won’t have to worry about ensuring it has consistent network access to the mothership.
This is already happening. Expect it to be mainstream in a few years.
Re: Sorry, we replaced that old technology, “see-through glass”
#267I do not blame cooler screen for selling this technology to anyone. But I want everyone to consider how much it takes to bring about a technology like this to a grocery store. If this is any of the big chain groceries, the manager doesn't even have the authority to put a sticker on the glass door. This was vetted by hundreds of people and none of them thought... glass? Business class tickets were purchased, hotels we…
Based on other "ad in store" similar displays I suspect this will go unused in a couple of months, maybe years
You have to sell the media to someone. This is not like the type of self-promotion posters that come with some products, this is a separate thing entirely.
This might conflict with supermarket deals with the beverage manufacturers. It might make it harder to sell some brands.
So either the ad space vendor is aligned with those interests and the ad buyer has an interest in buying this space (which might be hard to justify) I don't see it lasting too long.
Oh yeah and guess what happens if the fridge needs maintenance and is not owned by the store... Something has got to give there.
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You forgot the part where it refuses to toast your unlicensed bread.
> You forgot the part where it refuses to toast your unlicensed bread. The RFID chips make the toast taste better!
A QR code is baked on the backside on it in the bakery. People with too much time (and bread) on their hands soon figure out which spots you need to darken with a clothes iron so the checksum still matches and the toaster accepts the slice.
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#269back of TVs get pretty hot. though it could be an effective death trap. Imagine a girl, life size, with a heavenly voice beckoning you to go inside. Mesmerized by her mermaid like appearance, you can't help but step inside, the door locks, and then ...
Do LED TVs really get that hot? I guess a little where the backlight is but that isn't the whole or the panel
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Also the part where the toaster version is 6 years out of date and someone gains root access and deletes all your data
As an avid toast data-logger that would really put me over the edge. I have 9 years of daily toast data and I graph it in interesting ways a la Mr. Wolfram
But you don’t store your toast data in the toaster do you?