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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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Post by Izkata »

profmonocle wrote: post #2

I hope that these things don't periodically switch from showing the actual products & prices to showing a full-screen ad for something. A movie theater near me does that with their screen-based menus. Very annoying to be trying to decide what you want and suddenly have the menu vanish. It's a bit sad to think how wasteful these are. Not just the waste produced by producing the screens and powering them all day, but t…

> but the fact that you can't reliably see what's in there by looking means people will just learn to open it and browse with the door open, letting the cold air out.

Now that I know these exist, I kinda feel like being contrary and opening every single one to "look for" whatever it was I wanted.

Re: Sorry, we replaced that old technology, “see-through glass”

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Post by rebuilder »

burnt_toast wrote: post #127

The 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…

Not to worry, we'll be in WW3 by then, as states try to respond to mass upheavals caused by our failure to stop catastrophic climate change. Toast will not be a primary concern.

Re: Sorry, we replaced that old technology, “see-through glass”

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Post by imgabe »

rdiddly wrote: post #43
foxfired wrote: post #26

I 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…

We’ll just have to wait for Apple to purchase a premium grocery chain and rebrand it as an ad-free, privacy-respecting grocery store. Too bad Whole Foods is already taken.

Re: Sorry, we replaced that old technology, “see-through glass”

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Post by tonyedgecombe »

rebuilder wrote: post #272
burnt_toast wrote: post #127

The 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…

Not to worry, we'll be in WW3 by then, as states try to respond to mass upheavals caused by our failure to stop catastrophic climate change. Toast will not be a primary concern.

Toast will not be a primary concern.

Bread will be though.

Re: Sorry, we replaced that old technology, “see-through glass”

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Post by tomcooks »

jollybean wrote: post #131
jcims wrote: post #104

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The shoppers are already in the store, presumably to buy from their list. Now the store gets a cut of an ad and the profit from the sale it makes. The digital delivery is going to be amazing for A/B testing of ads because they are going to have near immediate feedback. It's pretty clever in a dystopian hellscape kind of way.

"The shoppers are already in the store, presumably to buy from their list. " This isn't really how it works. If it worked that way then lighting, music, display organization, cleanliness, shelf space, brand, packaging etc. 'would not matter'. All of those things matter, immensely, at any real scale. The kinds of comments I'm seeing here are a little bit uncomfortable in this regard, indicate a kind of lack of self-aw…

Don't know about the other regions where LIDL opened shop, but in southern Europe they've made a killing by avoiding all these optimization rules.

Turns out there's a huge chunk of the population who cannot waste a single cent on what marketing dept has to say

Re: Sorry, we replaced that old technology, “see-through glass”

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Post by deepserket »

xaduha wrote: post #63
tantalor wrote: post #39

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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 probably want to advertise something else, something someone else would pay them for to advertise. It can easily be made to detect if someone is near and making their choice, but otherwise they can be part of a larger ad.

Have you noticed the cameras at the top of each screen?

Something like https://youtu.be/7bXJ_obaiYQ

Re: Sorry, we replaced that old technology, “see-through glass”

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Post by baliex »

TheSpiceIsLife wrote: post #174
xmprt wrote: post #155

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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.

I’m not a human psychology expert by any means but I’m afraid think this would probably still work in their favour.

“There’s no such thing as bad publicity” is a thing because just having your brand name out there (even if it’s bad news) is better than it not being out there at all.

Fuck advertising and the greedy profit-driven place it comes from.

Re: Sorry, we replaced that old technology, “see-through glass”

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Post by KineticLensman »

falcolas wrote: post #209
seventytwo wrote: post #183

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Every slice has unique nooks and crannies to create a 2D pattern, allowing for DRM and personalization!

…Are they selling NFTs for the finished, unique works of “art”?

Non-fungible toast?
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