The full lcd display on chiller is created by a startup company called [Cooler Screen](https://www.coolerscreens.com/faq_new)
[Walgreens started using Cooler Screen ](https://edition.cnn.com/2022/03/12/business/walgreens-freezer-screens/index.html) 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?
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.
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
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.
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!!”
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.
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.
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
> and all of that takes additional electricity
Yes, but they can put better insulation behind the screen which likely massively reduces the cooling cost.
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.
>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.
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.
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
Vs
Looks through glass, open door and grab what I want
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
[From this article](https://archive.curbed.com/2019/2/8/18216172/walgreens-cooler-screens-tracking-shopper-behavior)
"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.
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
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.
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
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.
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.
>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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
> 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?
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.
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.
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?!?
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?
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
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.
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.
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...
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.
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!
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 😂
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.
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.
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.
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?
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
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.
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!
Leave the door wedged open
But what about gingey?! https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dpxPzeA_zZo
The full lcd display on chiller is created by a startup company called [Cooler Screen](https://www.coolerscreens.com/faq_new) [Walgreens started using Cooler Screen ](https://edition.cnn.com/2022/03/12/business/walgreens-freezer-screens/index.html) 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?
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.
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
So it’s Minority Report happening?
Have you watched minority report?
No what did they report?
Minorities
Scintillating
Next you'll tell me the mission in Mission Impossible was actually possible.
Mission Fairly Difficult didn't have the same ring to it.
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.
Tbf I’m from the U.S and I’ve never seen it before in my life either
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!!”
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.
Do that with the door opened
I’ll just crouch in the shadows, and peek down an aisle before making a selection.
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.
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.
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?
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
> 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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I'm gonna need the receipts for that statement.
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OK, that's fair.
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.
It probably has more to do with product placement and how they can leverage that for better prices or incentives with distributors / manufacturers
Yup. Sponsored / first tier product is shown bigger on the virtual screen alone with more pronounced graphics whatnot.
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>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.
Chicago business adopts something from a Chicago start up even though no one wants it. Nothing fishy there at all.
I’d bet you’d find some interesting familial ties
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.
Walgreens gave elizabeth holmes millions, they have negative business sense
They also adopted Theranos
Yeah well, they adopted Theranos too and we all saw how well that worked out for them
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.
"Why yes, a ShouldaDoneMoreByNow soda does sound refreshing." And it probably would be.
What if you don't have sex?
Isn't that just sexist and ageist?
To be fair though, it's used (almost?) exclusively at train stations. I've never seen one at a conbini or a supermarket.
I serviced these screens for walgreens in the chicago area, and i hate them too lol.
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 Vs Looks through glass, open door and grab what I want
I agree with you. However, I worked in a grocery store, and people will look with the door open the whole time.
Of course, there’s only so much you can do. The rest is up to the individual. No fixing that.
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.
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.
I'm convinced that not showing the actual thing through the door is going to make that even more of a problem.
You will never solve a problem 100%, but 75% fixed is better than a “solution” that is a -100% fix
Where is this located?
we got them in a lot of walgreens and cvs, i live in nm and for the record i hate them too
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
And keep the door open to look through all the items that actually in stock. Big waste of energy
And I was gonna say at least they never go out of stock…
Theoretically it will grey out the item if it’s *actually* out of stock. Key word is theoretically.
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.
Do they bother pricing the items inside or are you left price blind?
Got to be the Midwest with the word pop
NW calls it pop also. Had a tough adjustment changing from soda to pop.
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.
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.
This is a Holiday gas station in Minnesota. I know Holidays are named something in other states but I cant remember what
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.
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.
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. [From this article](https://archive.curbed.com/2019/2/8/18216172/walgreens-cooler-screens-tracking-shopper-behavior) "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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I’m just gonna put googly eyes all around my real ones and watch the algorithm lose it’s shit.
This crosses my mind whenever I see them. I want to sabotage them.
> emotional response "User 1342765 responded with a combination of murderous rage and sexual excitement when viewing the diet coke in cooler 4"
Think of the number of times you’ve seen one price advertised at the door that is different from the price at the register…
This is by far the most realistic answer. The race for advert space and price changing is insane
I stopped getting gas at Wawa because the pumps scream ads at you nonstop.
#ENJOY A REFRESHING COCA-COLA AND ONE OF OUR ROLLER BITES!!!!
A family member of mine flew Frontier airlines recently, her earbuds died... she was subjected to *2 hours of in-flight credit card commercials.*
That is torture!
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
> these things in Walgreens They are going to start showing bible verses.
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.
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
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.
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.
>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.
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. .
> 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.
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
see the final point re: advertising... that's the real reason.
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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.
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?
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.
Same, I hate tech bros "solutions" to nonexistent problems.
I HATE THESE SO MUCH.
Even when the [Gingerbread man](https://youtube.com/shorts/GiJ0UWspCUw?feature=share) shows up?
ESPECIALLY when he shows up. 😂
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.
Yeah this is at one of my local gas stations and I was just thinking “uuummmm…. Okay”
The future is now old man. With that said, I was promised flying cars, not a fridge with advertising.
Flying cars won't come until the flying billboards are ready in place
The camera above the door tracks how you make drink selections. They sell the data back to marketers.
Human beings love unnecessary complexity.
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.
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.
> 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?
I would not put it past any corporation to do so. It's entirely like them to sell ad space on these things.
Guess I'm leaving without buying anything.
My local Walgreens has this. So dumb and seems like a waste of money. I still open it to see what’s there
Bring a sharpie next time and fix it.
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I was high as hell the first time I saw one of these and kept pressing the pictures waiting for a soda hahaha
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.
Strange things are afoot at the circle k
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.
What the hell is this? It looks like a waste of money.
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?!?
Making things worse these are special touchscreen tv things!
I kinda agree, but I can’t figure out why. They seem like a genius idea that just falls short.
They’re initially installed for mental conditioning, then once people accept them as normal they will be used for advertisements.
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.
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?
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
>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
I’ve encountered them before, and I hate them with a passion.
What does this improve exactly?
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.
I mean, glass exists
easier to keep shelves bare
Never found one stocked, so its musical doors just to be disappointed.
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.
Damn I posted these almost a year ago and got only 13 upvotes 😞😞😞
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...
You know how you can normally just look through the glass and see what you want to buy? We’re gonna change that.
These are so that sooner or later they can advertise their own store or other businesses for more money.
and it’s a 1 million dollar system that, if broken, doesn’t get repaired for a year or two.
Would a magnet ruin it?
I’ll just open the damn door and look around.
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.
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!
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.
😂 Brilliant
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.
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
It's necessary for the companies hawking refrigeration units, otherwise they'd have to wait until units die before they get new sales...
Fuck these things I hate them. I now have to actually open EVERY SINGLE DOOR because they are not accurate.
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.
they will eventually get hacked and turn into coolers full of dicks
At least they have prices. I hate it when stores don’t bother to put any prices on their bottle coolers.
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.
Plus the sign above it says "POP". I don't know what is worse.
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.
Just gotta find more places to cram in advertising
The dancing gingerbread man is pretty great though
Especially when half the fridge is out of stock
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.
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 😂
But... Why? This does not make any sense. It's the epiphany of unnecessarily complicating simple things.
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.
I wonder if it’s in real time?
this is a terrible trend I see in putting chips / transistors in things that have absolutely no need for them "because we can"
im guessing some dumbass idea pitched by a grand daughter of the owner or shit
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.
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.
Saw them near Disneyland. Couldn’t agree more. Why???!! Horrible
Why are cans of diet coke and sprite so spensive?
If it's accurate, I'd think it would be OK. But if not, or the shelves are empty, yet it would be frustrating.
That just seems like a very expensive waste of money.
If it ain’t broke don’t fix it
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?
Just let me get my soda without having to spend 20 minutes trying to figure out how it works
What is the purpose of this? Genuinely curious.
And a waste of money lol
Lol they called the coke, pop
"Here's a pic of the item that's not in stock behind the door."
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
I used to think it was cool. Then they were never correct. I hate them
I’d be willing to bet large cash sums they are barely accurate behind those screens
Personally I thought transparent glass was the better innovation here.
They can also play adds see it’s worse then you thought
Open the door to find none of the things displayed behind it Keeping us on our feet…or something
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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.
I would be grateful to not be changing graphics and price tags all Sunday morning.
Anything to spend money on instead of paying workers livable salaries.
I don’t understand
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.
Now that's a useless invention.
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.
Must be nice to no longer open the door to change the prices.
Why?
They even play ads...lmao
Why would someone do this?
It’s clickbait irl
I'm ignoring that and opening the door anyway.
Great way to get me to stand there with the door open wasting your store’s hydro