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So Walgreens has Started Replacing Glass Refrigerator Doors with "Cooler Screens"
What a completely illogical waste of energy, raw materials and resources! We have these ina few European locations too and Japan had these on some of their wending machines for some years before us. Maybe the current shortage of components, resources and capacity will kill these sort of gimmicks off, but I don't have high hopes.
We've done several trials of these for customers over the last 10 years and they universally lead to a drop in sales. People standing watching eventually lose the will to shop, and bystanders don't want to interrupt the viewing of others by opening the door to get product.
Not to mention Content Creation Costs (digital content costs more than static signage they're used to paying for and the 30s TV ad gets old after the 100th rotation).
Inventory tracking though? if they've cracked that, that's a winner.
Meanwhile they are closing stores in the non-white areas of San Francisco because "shoplifting" is costing them like a thousand dollars a month.
I wonder if we are evolving to a point of two types of humans, those that can't exist without a screen and are adapting to almost becoming cyborgs, and those of us who are pushing away screens and interacting with them in more like - "well, gotta wash the dishes and look at the internet today".
jeebus save us.
Minority Report becoming true.
Seen one of these fridges at my local liquor store. It was actually super cool. But it was a single one. Can't imagine a row of them with spinning advertising.