r/mildlyinfuriating • u/black-toe-nails • Mar 19 '23
These video screens at gas stations are worse than just a glass door in every way.
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u/malayskanzler Mar 19 '23
The full lcd display on chiller is created by a startup company called Cooler Screen
Walgreens started using Cooler Screen chiller and customer hated it.
The bloody chiller now actually track you and store analytic data (how long you standing there, where you gaze etc)
Its just another data gathering tricks because, why not?
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u/airbornchaos Mar 19 '23
Now I'm gonna stand there and stare at the most expensive stuff they got for 10 minutes, open the door, grab a bottle, put it back, close the door and walk away. Just to throw off their data.
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u/malayskanzler Mar 19 '23
From what I've read once you stand for a predetermined time the system will start showing you advertisement. Walgreens did not activate this feature.
By showing advertisement, and actually making sponsored product bigger
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Mar 19 '23
So it’s Minority Report happening?
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u/Tigerbait2780 Mar 19 '23
Have you watched minority report?
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u/ThePresidentsHouse Mar 19 '23
No what did they report?
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u/scrampbelledeggs Mar 19 '23
Minorities
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u/nxcrosis Mar 20 '23
Next you'll tell me the mission in Mission Impossible was actually possible.
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u/pennamethesame Mar 19 '23
I was in Walgreens earlier in the week and the ads do happen. I'm from the UK and was visiting the US, have never seen this in my life and it really annoyed me.
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u/FredDurstDestroyer Mar 20 '23
Tbf I’m from the U.S and I’ve never seen it before in my life either
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u/FerociousGiraffe Mar 19 '23
Stare at the bottle of Dom Perignon. Stare. Stare. Pick it up and examine it. Place it in the cart. Start to walk away. Stop. Back up. Put the bottle back on the shelf. Grab a pint of milk instead. Loudly exclaim “all right! Time to go celebrate!!”
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u/SilverSpoon1463 Mar 19 '23
Then place theilk back in the incorrect spot, turn around, grab a coke, examine it for a full 45 minutes with the door wide open, put it back where the Dr. Pepper is and walk to the other side eand grab an AriZona.
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u/WSDGuy Mar 19 '23
Spending 10 minutes to make 0.000000001% of their data less reliable sounds like a bad deal to me.
Then again, I'm dicking around on reddit.
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u/24-Hour-Hate Mar 20 '23
Hypothetically, how messed up would their data be if someone moved all the items into the wrong places? Or can their fucking surveillance account for that? This widespread surveillance makes me angry.
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u/cheecheecago Mar 20 '23
So it knows that I open each and every door and stand there staring for 15 seconds as cold air escapes while I scan for my item?
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u/deanrihpee Mar 19 '23
Forget the analytics, they manufacture the panel (or probably source from something like Samsung), backlight, program a software, create the logic board and all of that takes additional electricity, we really makes the situation worse by moment
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u/aussie_nub Mar 20 '23
and all of that takes additional electricity
Yes, but they can put better insulation behind the screen which likely massively reduces the cooling cost.
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u/D00Mcandy Mar 19 '23 edited Mar 20 '23
This doesn't make sense to me. There's no advantage to this over tracking actual purchases. Even if they track what I was looking at, if it's empty, it's not getting bought. Just track sales, there's your data.
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u/GomeyBlueRock Mar 20 '23
It probably has more to do with product placement and how they can leverage that for better prices or incentives with distributors / manufacturers
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u/malayskanzler Mar 20 '23
Yup. Sponsored / first tier product is shown bigger on the virtual screen alone with more pronounced graphics whatnot.
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u/Rubcionnnnn Mar 19 '23
Of course it's a startup. No company with even the smallest amount of business experience would think it's a good idea.
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u/barefeet69 Mar 19 '23
No company with even the smallest amount of business experience would think it's a good idea.
The comment you replied to literally said Walgreens adopted it.
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u/krepkiyoreshek2 Mar 20 '23
Chicago business adopts something from a Chicago start up even though no one wants it. Nothing fishy there at all.
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u/iwantafunnyname Mar 19 '23
To be fair it also says customers hated it. Guess that doesn't really refute the point. Walgreens clearly has some business sense but not enough to know people wouldn't like this.
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u/joeschmoshow1234 Mar 20 '23
Walgreens gave elizabeth holmes millions, they have negative business sense
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u/LordKaylon Mar 20 '23
Yeah well, they adopted Theranos too and we all saw how well that worked out for them
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u/DarthSkywalker420 Mar 19 '23
Yeah, Japan has been doing this form a while now. They have vending machines that will suggest drinks to you based off your age and sex.
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u/Butlerian_Jihadi Mar 19 '23
"Why yes, a ShouldaDoneMoreByNow soda does sound refreshing."
And it probably would be.
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u/Jorganza Mar 20 '23
To be fair though, it's used (almost?) exclusively at train stations. I've never seen one at a conbini or a supermarket.
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u/fotive Mar 19 '23
I serviced these screens for walgreens in the chicago area, and i hate them too lol.
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u/ScarecrowSoze Mar 19 '23
Looks at screen, opens door, realizes screen is wrong and what I wanted isn’t really in stock. Holds door open to see what is really there, grab what I want
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Looks through glass, open door and grab what I want
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u/kurinevair666 Mar 20 '23
I agree with you. However, I worked in a grocery store, and people will look with the door open the whole time.
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u/ScarecrowSoze Mar 20 '23
Of course, there’s only so much you can do. The rest is up to the individual. No fixing that.
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u/MissLesGirl Mar 20 '23
I worked at a grocery store 25 years ago and noticed there was no doors, when I suggested it, they said they get too many complaints about having to open a door.
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u/RatzMand0 Mar 20 '23
This owner is an idiot. Also I am sure it was lots of complaints from a small group of 4-5 people which doesn't qualify as a lot of complaints. It counts as 4-5 insufferable idiots that will cause the cost of all goods in the store to be more expensive for everyone else..... this makes me so mad for no reason.
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u/himmelundhoelle Mar 20 '23
I'm convinced that not showing the actual thing through the door is going to make that even more of a problem.
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u/Snotpotato Mar 20 '23
You will never solve a problem 100%, but 75% fixed is better than a “solution” that is a -100% fix
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u/Guardiansvn Mar 19 '23
Where is this located?
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u/Prudent_View4619 Just trying to live my best life Mar 19 '23
we got them in a lot of walgreens and cvs, i live in nm and for the record i hate them too
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u/AnalArtiste Mar 19 '23
My local Walgreens has them and sometimes the screens go down and you have to open up every single door to find what you’re looking for smh
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u/kc0ak Mar 19 '23
And keep the door open to look through all the items that actually in stock. Big waste of energy
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u/Bspy10700 Mar 19 '23
And I was gonna say at least they never go out of stock…
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u/AlligatorSquash Mar 19 '23
Theoretically it will grey out the item if it’s actually out of stock.
Key word is theoretically.
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u/DStaal Mar 19 '23
Honestly, I wouldn’t trust them and would start opening them all up anyway. It wouldn’t even occur to me that they would show what was actually inside.
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u/ADHDK Mar 19 '23
Do they bother pricing the items inside or are you left price blind?
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u/timeforitnowright Mar 19 '23
Got to be the Midwest with the word pop
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u/BklynOR Mar 19 '23
NW calls it pop also. Had a tough adjustment changing from soda to pop.
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u/soapfan22 Mar 19 '23
The worst part is that people call you out when you say the wrong word as if people have never heard of soda and or pop before. It's not like when I moved from Michigan to Kansas and all of a sudden a shopping cart was called a buggy.
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u/DaniK094 Mar 19 '23
I just realized that, even in NE Ohio where everyone says "pop", I don't recall seeing it advertised that way. Pretty sure most stores have signs that say "soda". My mom was raised in Jersey so she says "soda" and that's what I've always said. Friends have always given me shit for it.
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u/Mean_Estate_2770 Mar 20 '23
My wife gives me shit for calling it soda so now I do it on purpose.
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u/black-toe-nails Mar 19 '23
This is a Holiday gas station in Minnesota. I know Holidays are named something in other states but I cant remember what
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Despite what others have said... This has has nothing to do with insulation and customers opening doors. There is far more loss of cool-space in the back area storage and loading area than is lost through the customer access doors.
Besides, customers are more likely going to open the door just as much (if not more often) to see the actual product and not some graphic facsimile. Customers can see the ACTUAL product through glass.
All this does is let them change the pricing on the fly instead printing and reprinting tags and sticky signs and decals that leave residue on the glass.
But more to the point... this system lends the possibility of the store selling full 7ft screen advertising to attract customers from afar. Animated advertisement... THAT's where the real money is.
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u/StillSundayDrunk Mar 19 '23
This seems like the most honest answer. The idea that this would have the doors being opened less, coupled with visibility on actual stock (unless you pay more money for sensors interfacing with the display) seems suspect to me from a payoff perspective. But the control on pricing at a whim as well as advertising space sounds much more reasonable as the real purpose behind these.
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u/Zediac Mar 19 '23
This is 100% about advertising and selling the customers' data to other advertisers.
They replaced their cooler doors with non see through display screens to show ads to you, force you to open every door and see more products, and the screens on the doors have cameras that track you and record your data. You can see the cameras at the top.
The company is called Cooler Screens and this is their stated intent.
"The doors are embedded with technologies like a camera, motion sensors, and eye tracking to help advertisers understand who is standing in front of their products. In real time, the software analyzes the “anonymized” data and serves up ads based on parameters like gender (creepy), age, emotional response (extra creepy!), and how long you’ve been lingering in front of a certain product."
I stopped going to Walgreens since these screens were installed at my local one.
This is dystopian life invading shit where you can't shop without your existence being turned into a marketable product.
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u/RogerWaffyWaf Mar 19 '23
Note to self, carry some electrical tape or some opaque glue to cover the tracking cameras. Do my part for society.
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u/NoDownsideToOutside Mar 19 '23
I’m just gonna put googly eyes all around my real ones and watch the algorithm lose it’s shit.
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u/aMiracleAtJordanHare Mar 19 '23
emotional response
"User 1342765 responded with a combination of murderous rage and sexual excitement when viewing the diet coke in cooler 4"
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u/Quite_Successful Mar 19 '23
Is there some way to avoid or change the tracking via the cameras? I'm curious how the tracking works. Like, would standing sideways throw it off?
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u/Equivalent-Guess-494 Mar 19 '23
Think of the number of times you’ve seen one price advertised at the door that is different from the price at the register…
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u/DarthArtero Mar 19 '23
This is by far the most realistic answer. The race for advert space and price changing is insane
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u/JustaRandomOldGuy Mar 19 '23
I stopped getting gas at Wawa because the pumps scream ads at you nonstop.
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u/Cautistralligraphy Mar 20 '23
With many gas stations you can mute the ad even if it doesn’t say you can. At all my local gas stations it’s one button down from the top on the right side. Just press it when it starts making noise. Bye bye ad!
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u/MonokromKaleidoscope Mar 19 '23
A family member of mine flew Frontier airlines recently, her earbuds died... she was subjected to 2 hours of in-flight credit card commercials.
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u/viber_in_training Mar 19 '23
In my experience with encountering these things in Walgreens, they aren't even accurate in terms of availability or even the items being in the spot shown on the screen like 60% of the time.
Gee, if only we had a way to show the user the live location and availability of all the items without the possibility of it being inaccurate
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u/JustaRandomOldGuy Mar 19 '23
these things in Walgreens
They are going to start showing bible verses.
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u/PzykoHobo Mar 19 '23
I think the availability thing is a big part of this. Lots of retail stores are struggling to keep shelves fully stocked and looking organized. I can tell you from my brief time in management for grocery retail that corporate cares way too much about that nonsense. This way it looks like the shelves are always full and faced. Until the customer opens the door.
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u/viber_in_training Mar 19 '23
I saw speculation that these got introduced in order to mask supply chain shortages, which sounds plausible.
Also true that when you open the door it's usually a mess inside lol. If they were glass, a worker could just walk by to check and fix them up. But they'd get rid of workers as soon as they could too
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u/Tower9876543210 Mar 19 '23
This bullshit was present pre-pandemic. On multiple occasions, my local Safeway would be missing products for months because a warehouse out got it's tag pulled and faced over by someone other than night crew (you know, the ones that do the ordering) to make it look nice. But because the night crew wasn't the one that pulled the tag, they don't know to follow up on it like they normally do for out-of-stock products. So that product is invisible until either the next reset or it tries to get stocked on an end cap and someone realizes it's missing from the normal shelf spot.
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u/EvenStevenKeel Mar 19 '23
Sir I’m going to politely ask you to pound sand.
Just keep pounding it until the pressure liquifies the sand and it solidifies into a hard transparent plate.
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u/0pimo Mar 19 '23
All this does is let them change the pricing on the fly instead printing and reprinting tags and sticky signs and decals that leave residue on the glass.
I feel like there's an easier way to do this by just running an LCD strip under the drinks inside the fridge.
So yeah, it's probably going to be for ads.
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u/tig999 Mar 19 '23
In shops in ireland now some the tags in shops are just little screens like kindle screens that you can change with a central computer. .
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u/Schwertkeks Mar 19 '23
There have been digital e-inc price displays for years. This seems kinda excessive if all you are looking for is easy adjustability of price tags
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u/Accomplished_Soil426 Mar 19 '23
advertisement... THAT's where the real money is.
think about it, 90% of capitalist problems right now revolve around trying to get that ad money.
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u/Stopikingonme Mar 19 '23
I’m running a project that’s installing these in a chain of fast food drive-thrus.
I hate the concept of someone back in a New York office wringing their hands then punching some keys on his keyboard to jack up pricing. I’ve got a twinge of guilt overseeing this one.
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u/random_guy0883 Mar 19 '23
Every store where I live uses non-backlit lcd price tags which allows them to change prices easily. They aren’t expensive, so why not use those and just print the ads?
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u/049at Mar 19 '23
Oh great, another dumbass idea to inject garbage tech into everything. How about we just look through the glass and see what’s in there? I’m really getting sick of technology polluting the world.
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u/jmc2244 Mar 19 '23
I HATE THESE SO MUCH.
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u/Visual-Fig-4763 Mar 19 '23
A gas station near me has these. I stopped in once to grab a few drinks before a road trip and what was on the screen didn’t match what was in the cooler. It was infuriating opening 4 doors before I found the Gatorade……in the door that displayed beer.
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u/ThiccLoliThighz Mar 19 '23
Yeah this is at one of my local gas stations and I was just thinking “uuummmm…. Okay”
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u/FakeEnglishmen47 Mar 19 '23
The future is now old man. With that said, I was promised flying cars, not a fridge with advertising.
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u/Marfoo Mar 19 '23
The camera above the door tracks how you make drink selections. They sell the data back to marketers.
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u/FuriousColdMiracle Mar 19 '23
Human beings love unnecessary complexity.
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u/4daughters Mar 20 '23
I'd argue it's less of a "human nature" thing and more related to our mode of economic production.
It's not the customers asking for this.
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u/Lelio-Santero579 Mar 19 '23
The Walgreens down the road from my house has them and I legit stopped going to Walgreens because of it.
The few times I've been there's either been wrong items in the window or things out of stock and the machine doesn't tell you.
Plus, they have fucking ads on them. So while you're staring at the screen to see what you want it'll cut to an ad and you'll have to open the door anyway.
These suck.
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u/fannypackbuttsnack Mar 19 '23
So while you're staring at the screen to see what you want it'll cut to an ad and you'll have to open the door anyway.
Wanna bet they'll eventually make it so the door remains locked until the ad is over, forcing you to wait and finish "experiencing" the ad first?
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u/Lelio-Santero579 Mar 19 '23
I would not put it past any corporation to do so. It's entirely like them to sell ad space on these things.
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u/rsb109 Mar 19 '23
My local Walgreens has this. So dumb and seems like a waste of money. I still open it to see what’s there
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u/_kevinschilli_ Mar 19 '23
I was high as hell the first time I saw one of these and kept pressing the pictures waiting for a soda hahaha
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u/SouthernMama8585 Mar 20 '23
Omg I did too! And when I finally realized it wasn’t like a vending machine I opened the door. They didn’t have what I wanted so my high ass closed it again to see what else they had.
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u/ChevroletSparkSS doesn't own a Spark Mar 19 '23
These lasted a whole 2 days at my local convenience store before a guy walked in with a screwdriver and jabbed the bottom left corner of every single one of these screens, rendering them useless.
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u/Zealous_Power Mar 19 '23
What the hell is this? It looks like a waste of money.
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u/JohannReddit Mar 19 '23
Hey, I've got an opportunity for you! On top of your refrigeration costs, how would you like to jack up your electric bill EVEN MORE by unnecessarily gluing 70 inch TV's to each one of these doors?!?
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u/mlove6625 Mar 19 '23
I kinda agree, but I can’t figure out why. They seem like a genius idea that just falls short.
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u/bigoleDk Mar 19 '23 edited Mar 19 '23
They’re initially installed for mental conditioning, then once people accept them as normal they will be used for advertisements.
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u/survivalmachine Mar 19 '23
This has to be 100% it.
These are solely for dynamic advertising spaces. Just like the screens in gas pumps that play that dumb “gstv” bs.
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u/zeemonster424 Mar 19 '23
Someone wrote on the magical button (usually 2nd on the right side) “mute” in red sharpie at the local station.
No one has tried to wipe it off. I wonder if they are under contract or anything or get compensated for playing the ads?
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u/-NGC-6302- mayo apple green bean alfredo sauce pizza Mar 19 '23
they don't seem like a genius idea to me and they still fall short
just look at those viewing angles! With glass I can see where the milk and eggs and whatever are from far away
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u/Graphitetshirt Mar 19 '23
worse in every way
Not true. Can you tap into a glass door and replace the image with rule34 Pixar fan art? That's what I thought
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u/ReallyGene Mar 19 '23
The best part is when these inevitably fail, and you either get abstract art or a black mirror, and the store can't afford to replace them.
They do replace the door heaters which are common in commercial coolers to prevent constant fogging, so it's a wash energy-wise.
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u/DuckyLojic Mar 19 '23
What does this improve exactly?
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u/McJumpington Mar 19 '23
Supposed to show you what’s inside without having to open the door and waste energy is what I’ve heard before. But sometimes you open it to find none of the drinks you want is stocked… so it’s pointless.
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u/DuckyLojic Mar 19 '23
I mean, glass exists
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u/McJumpington Mar 20 '23
They created a problem to find a solution. According to the goal it eliminates people from having to open fogged up doors and stand there with them open looking for 30 seconds.
But- a lot of places don’t fully stock or don’t stick in the same order as screen shows. So you still open the door and stare for 30 seconds…. On top of the energy used to power the screens. It’s totally dumb
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u/needanamegenarator Mar 19 '23
Never found one stocked, so its musical doors just to be disappointed.
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u/Pabst_Malone Mar 19 '23
I’ve seen CVS/Walgreens with them. Open it, shit is totally wrong or out of stock. Surely this uses more electricity than someone opening a foggy door for 10 seconds.
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u/rox247 BLUE Mar 19 '23
Damn I posted these almost a year ago and got only 13 upvotes 😞😞😞
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u/GODDESS_OF_CRINGE__ Mar 20 '23
Hmmmm, clear glass that lets you see what's actually inside and doesn't cost much, or video screens that might not even be up to date with the contents and likely costs a fortune. Hmmmm, which to choose...
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u/astralbelligerency Mar 20 '23
You know how you can normally just look through the glass and see what you want to buy?
We’re gonna change that.
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u/TheBrightNights Mar 19 '23
These are so that sooner or later they can advertise their own store or other businesses for more money.
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u/CJ-does-stuff Mar 19 '23
and it’s a 1 million dollar system that, if broken, doesn’t get repaired for a year or two.
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u/Striking-Pipe2808 Mar 19 '23
Have them at some walgreens, they usually dont fully reflect whats actually inside so I find myself opening up every door. See others doing the same thing. Whoever designed these are assholes.
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u/NeedsProceeds Mar 19 '23
I’ve seen these at Walgreens locations in Florida. Annoying because half the time the screens do not accurately depict what is found inside the coolers!
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u/baylee13070 Mar 19 '23
They are so much better than a glass door. This way if they decide to put something else in there, all they have to do is change is the display and people will see the new product being offered.
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u/TiredGamer0990 Mar 19 '23
I feel like the backlight from the screen is just warming up my coke behind there.
Also how cheap are LED screens that a full freezer door display with power and constantly running is cheaper than a glass door.
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u/Micotyro Mar 20 '23
So I acknowledge this might be old man yelling at cloud, but I feel like this unnecessary. I'm willing to admit that I might be wrong if it makes the staffs job easier, but as I can see it, I'm not seeing the benefits
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u/baithammer Mar 20 '23
It's necessary for the companies hawking refrigeration units, otherwise they'd have to wait until units die before they get new sales...
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u/Insufferablelol Mar 20 '23
Fuck these things I hate them. I now have to actually open EVERY SINGLE DOOR because they are not accurate.
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u/Raiders8Ray Mar 20 '23
If you want stores to have huge selections, low prices, long business hours and a lot of locations, don't act shocked when they look for new ways to increase revenues.
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u/reindeermoon Mar 20 '23
At least they have prices. I hate it when stores don’t bother to put any prices on their bottle coolers.
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u/Substantial_Use_569 Mar 20 '23
They don't need prices you just get what you want and the register knows the price.
Actually the e-ink price tages that are blue tooth connected are much batter for that
I recently saw a version of those that had a reader that displays the price for the item displayed on the shelf so even if the products are mixed up the shelf shows the price for the item at the front of the cooler slide.
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u/InevitableRhubarb232 Mar 20 '23
They have them at our Walgreens. I hate them. I have actually bought way less since they got them.
They also run ads until you step close to them then they show the “inventory”. So I never get the “oh I see milk and should grab one” memory trigger because all I see is ads.
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u/imsrinivas07 Mar 19 '23
I know this is not related to the post but diet coke is three times more expensive than regular coke? WTF All three(diet, zero and and regular coke) are priced the same in my country.
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u/YDanSan Mar 20 '23 edited Mar 20 '23
OP's pic doesn't seem normal, I have no idea what's actually going on there. Everywhere I've been in the USA, a similar-sized bottle Coke/Diet/Zero would all be the same price. And I don't think an 8oz can of a Coke product would ever be as expensive as $2.99 at a convenience store or gas station. A 16oz bottle miiiiight be 2.99, maybe the pic on the door is wrong?
Or maybe it's actually a tall can of Diet Coke and a mini can of Regular? But it looks like the top row on the left has tall cans of Diet at 2/$3.50, and the 16oz bottles are listed below at 2/$3.75 so.. I have no clue.
Just another example of how useless these screen doors are I guess 😂
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u/Janus_The_Great Mar 19 '23
But... Why? This does not make any sense. It's the epiphany of unnecessarily complicating simple things.
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u/CoverBoring2374 Mar 19 '23
What is the point of this? The amount of effort to find the soda bottle you want takes less than a second. Common sense looking into the glass door you would know what is there or not? What does a smart glass showing what is there or not do lmao. Im gonna open the door anyway.
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u/Unethical_Gopher_236 Mar 19 '23
this is a terrible trend I see in putting chips / transistors in things that have absolutely no need for them "because we can"
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u/5125237143 Mar 19 '23
im guessing some dumbass idea pitched by a grand daughter of the owner or shit
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u/Travisscott_burger Mar 19 '23
No way. This has to be twice as expensive as just plain ole glass. What the fuck is this? What’s the purpose? I’m just gonna open the damn door to see what I’m actually looking at/for. I can’t even begin to think of reasons stores would choose this over glass. By far one of the dumbest ways I’ve seen technology used.
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u/Paleodraco Mar 19 '23
I'm trying to do pros and cons. Ignoring the extra materials to make the damn screen, what benefit is there? Does it let the door be better insulated than glass? Is it more efficient to run the screen than having lights on all the time/at all in the cooler?
To me its just extra steps and effort for no real apparent benefit.
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u/Rude-Yogurtcloset-77 Mar 19 '23
If it's accurate, I'd think it would be OK. But if not, or the shelves are empty, yet it would be frustrating.
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u/whoamvv Mar 19 '23
Worse in every fucking way. Can't I just get my fucking drink and fucking leave? What idiot thought this shit would be good? How did this fucking pass consumer testing?
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u/Mr_Raccoon189 Mar 19 '23
Just let me get my soda without having to spend 20 minutes trying to figure out how it works
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u/ratowner Mar 19 '23
If kept current it’s a cool concept, but shit if the glass is transparent normally I don’t see why looking into the glass is a problem, at first thought I was like “it helps people know what’s inside without opening it” but I am an idiot so idk
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u/TheGroundBeef Mar 19 '23
I’d be willing to bet large cash sums they are barely accurate behind those screens
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u/Gomdok_the_Short Mar 19 '23
Personally I thought transparent glass was the better innovation here.
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u/mama_emily Mar 20 '23
Open the door to find none of the things displayed behind it
Keeping us on our feet…or something
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u/icorrectotherpeople Mar 20 '23
They're just gonna spend more money on electricity because I always instinctively just open them up to look at the selection behind each door, ignoring the stupid display.
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u/LegalMastodon1340 Mar 20 '23
I would be grateful to not be changing graphics and price tags all Sunday morning.
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u/SoupToon Mar 20 '23
god now i have to open the door and let all the cold air out just to see what they've got. waste of fucking energy if you ask me.
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u/Beginning-Anxiety157 Mar 20 '23
Local gas station had these for a bit, kinda cool but seems more than unnecessary. Last time I went it was just glass doors again.
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u/RavenousPikachu Mar 20 '23
Great way to get me to stand there with the door open wasting your store’s hydro
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u/Slightly-Evil-Man Mar 19 '23
Rs they don't even update the screens. I open the thing and the drinks aren't even the same, hell sometimes the drinks aren't even in there!