“The digital cooler screens at Walgreens made me watch an ad before it allowed me to know which door held the frozen pizzas,”
“This is the future of retail and shopping,” Avakian said.
the main reason this tech can proliferate is that the people who decide to insert ads into every area of our visual field are rarely within striking distance of the common person. these assholes all have personal shoppers/assistants, live behind walls, and we don't know what they look like. honestly, the only thing cool about any AR tech would be its hijacking by culture jamming leftists to identify/add callouts to our enemies (secret police/undercover cops, informants, ultra high net worth individuals, etc).
also, there's a great dystopian visual gag here, where it's like post apocalyptic and some plucky hero scavenger stumbles across a display fridge running on solar power with bottled water in it that is running at like 16K so it looks real and shifts with perspective, only for him to open the door and like it's empty or has a bunch of skulls in it and it's a trap set by cannibals or baddies.
Bill Hicks continues to have the only moral and correct take on advertising and marketers.
For those who don't know: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHEOGrkhDp0
people who decide to insert ads into every area of our visual field are rarely within striking distance of the common person. these assholes all have personal shoppers/assistants, live behind walls, and we don't know what they look like
Just gotta look up the board of directors and executives of the companies whose ads are on the screen and the adtech companies. All pretty public and openly available
Avakian said
Can't believe Bob would do this; the new synthesis is cancelled
Clearly the greatest thinker of our time
There's not enough power to keep the inside cold and the ad screen on.
So the screen is on then?
Yes, and the water is warm.
"Sorry, you simply buying something doesn't create enough value for our shareholders."
What a fucking crock of shit. Absolutely no respect for anyone's time or dignity. Even being a good little consumer isn't enough anymore, you have to subject yourself to degradation and psychological manipulation even to participate in the basic market activities required of you to exist.
Every door like this is an assault on human decency and smashing them in with a hammer is a moral act.
I really want to emphasize that advertising is a potent form of exploiting human psychology. The advanced and pervasive form of it we see today, where it is tailored to individuals and consistently assaults them using a level of knowledge that many people's loved ones wouldn't even have access to is tantamount to abuse.
If a friend or a partner kept careful notes of your behavior, where you were looking and for how long, what you tended to buy and when based on your surrounding behavior and mood, and used it to manipulate you, we would rightfully call such a person a dangerous abuser. It is absolutely abhorrent to accept that from strangers who also already have massive structural power over us.
Not just what you buy, but what you search, what items you look at on other websites, and correlating data with demographic information that is either "lying around" or supplemented with targeted surveys to fill out the profile.
human attention is a finite resource. what does capitalism call those? externalities. what does it do with them? carves them up and destroys them for profit.
I might just become much worse at steering my cart around these.
Unless they are locked until the ad finishes then there is a solution. The solution is to open every single door and leave them open. These freezer doors stay open for easy restocking by fully opening them until they click, just do that or jam something into the locking mechanism.
I genuinely believe most ads are ABLEIST because they're so distracting.
Cooler Screens says 90% of consumers it has surveyed prefer its digital screens to traditional fridges
Do you prefer to look at digital screens?
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YES -> SKIP AD
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NO -> WATCH AD, FREE TESTICLE SHOCK
We discovered a sampling error after an audit. The 10% NO respondents was just one guy who spent 8000 dollars on iced tea that day.
Pretty soon all of these will display a Windows login screen or bash script with an error and the Walgreens minimum wage employees will have to write post-it notes about what's in the fridge
The manufacturer going out of business and not supporting them would be hilarious
literal unauthorized bread lmao
I'll be running a bash script of my own
Neuralink 1,000% is going to be used to put ads in people's brains both awake and asleep.
I feel like Neuralink is going to be like Google Glass except it's going to die out way earlier in its life cycle
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Good on them. They were on the verge of bankruptcy with all the theft going on all the time. Now they have the money to put screens on coolers! Good to see them do better and crime on the decline.
if your grocery store can afford screens, you're not shoplifting enough
My local Kroger did this, and it's gonna turn me into the Unabomber, I stg
It's boring as hell and annoying as fuck how commerce continues to chase after people and becoming an increasingly obstructive, invasive phenomenon. People don't want their lives to be plagued with ads! Why do you think daytime television is on its deathbed (apart from being an endless sea of reality TV)? If we need something, we'll fucking go looking for it.
But endless market growth!!!
Why do you think daytime television is on its deathbed (apart from being an endless sea of reality TV)?
I can't believe there are people who watch that shit.
Some of the most
people I have ever known. It's remarkable how disconnected they can be.It’s wild how we made cyberpunk dystopias real in the cringest way possible
If I ever find one of them I'm opening every one to check the inside and then making no effort to close it.
They have these at my local Walgreens; not only are they stupid AF and annoying, they actively make me to not want to shop there. Like, just a clear freezer door, I’ll scan my eyes over the products to see if there’s anything I want. With those, my brain just straight up nopes out of considering anything behind the doors, it gets dismissed as noise in the sea of advertising.
This is the fault of communism, somehow
It's communism's fault, because this wouldnt be a thing if they hadn't stopped at berlin.
The power of Juche had not yet broken the seals on Marx's forbidden treatises on proletarian necromancy, and so a devastated and exhausted USSR was forced to relent for the time being.
Being the first socialist experiment made things a lot harder. The socialist world hadn't yet developed the Cuban moral vest, the Laotian cloak of invisibility and forgetting, The Vietnamese power of turning into killer trees, or the Chinese power to get stronger every time it collapses. All they had was tactical deployments of Stalin to devour the enemy's granaries in single fell swoops of the man-sized steel spoon from which he took his name.
I've seen these irl. They are so fucking bright at every time of day that it literally hurts to look at them.
Return to black and green
Not even white! It's all so goddamn bluish, like it's worst than blaring pure white. Or they may be due to me having reading mode on my phone and other devices 24/7
It fucking sucks, and if something doesn't have the warm light of a high pressure sodium lamp then I ain't buyin' nothing
digital coolers at wallscreens
be looking like a PS2 game's texture for a vending machine, but irlThe freezers have front-facing sensors used to anonymously track shoppers interacting with the platform
Time to start wearing a hat with eyes on the front and side to mess with their gaze tracking software. Can't track where you are looking if your shirt has 10 pairs of eyes at different angles and heights.
Running errands in my biblically accurate angel costume
Nah, you dont understand, this is the future we were always dreaming of
if you don't like it maybe harder next timeBut for customers who just want to peek into the freezer and grab their ice cream, Walgreens (WBA) risks angering them by
solvinga problem thatshoppersdidn’tknowexisted.
Wires are probably visible from the inside of the door, probably can see plug too...
snip
Find the input stuff and play porn on it or something
The S in IoT stands for security
The temptation to take a crowbar to them increases every time I see them
Tap it with an emergency window hammer, or better yet a piece of broken spark plug.
why not just open the door and look?
Door locked. Please wait for ad
Please drink verification can.
Brands can place ads spread over multiple freezers
If it's anything like my local Walgreens, there's no signs
So if it's covering every door with an ad, you wouldn't know which cooler had anything in it aside from just opening doors and checking
Which, after just being to see what you wanted seems like a major step backwards
Who the hell buys anything other than drugs at Walgreens?
In my little town of 12,000 people, the only stores open past 7pm are the 7/11, the gas station and the Walgreens
This is the reality for a lot of people, especially in places where your choices are a five minute walk to the Walgreens or a 20 minute drive to the Walmart two towns over
American small towns are a hell of a thing.
That's not me criticizing the people in the towns, it's me criticizing america, car brain, capitalism, food deserts, etc.
we have 8 year old african children mining rare earth minerals so we can build this shit
"Ugh, this news clip is depressing. Fuck Coke for making me think about other countries, I'm just gonna grab a Pepsi instead. Their door ads are funny."