Shoppers Complain of New Digital Fridge Doors That Play Ads before Showing What’s Inside

[Tsing]

The end times are surely here, as even something as trivial as grabbing a bottle of Coke or Gatorade from a store fridge has turned out to be an insufferable task.

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[Grimlakin]

You can bypass the adds by opening the door.

 

[DrezKill]

In one case a person had to watch an ad before the door let them know that it was the freezer had held frozen pizzas. I can see people wasting more energy by just continually opening the doors until they find the one that has the food they want to buy. Cuz most people aren't gonna sit through those ads. A friend of mine also pointed out that the doors waste energy by simply existing. Indeed, that's a higher electricity cost than just having normal glass doors that aren't f*cking screens.

 

[Brian_B]

You can bypass the adds by opening the door.

Yeah but you have no idea what's in there. Think of your standard storefront - you have an aisle with dozens of refrigerated cases next to each other. It spans from milk to eggs to produce to ice cream to beer. And that's before you talk about flavors, if what you want is even in there and in stock, etc.

If you know what you're after, it's bad enough. If you were just browsing - well, forget that.

 

[Nanobot]

Next level: Minority Report.

 

[Brian_B]

Next level: Minority Report.

Precog grocery shopping would be nice, I admit. If my house were just stocked with the stuff I wanted that would be awesome.

 

[xGryfter]

Yeah but you have no idea what's in there. Think of your standard storefront - you have an aisle with dozens of refrigerated cases next to each other. It spans from milk to eggs to produce to ice cream to beer. And that's before you talk about flavors, if what you want is even in there and in stock, etc.

If you know what you're after, it's bad enough. If you were just browsing - well, forget that.

Every grocery store I've shopped at has signs above the freezers telling you the general content. Yes it's annoying but ****'em, I'll stand there with the doors open looking for what I want before watching their adds... unless my groceries are cheaper for having watched.

 

[Grimlakin]

Every grocery store I've shopped at has signs above the freezers telling you the general content. Yes it's annoying but ****'em, I'll stand there with the doors open looking for what I want before watching their adds... unless my groceries are cheaper for having watched.

Here is my question. If the tech exists to do this cheaply with not a lot of power draw, and it can be clear when disabled or opaque when turned on, or some mixture of the two using AR (Augmented Reality) to show what is in the case...


Why the hell can I not have this on my car windows so I can adjust the tint on the fly or black them out when parked and such? Or show a empty clean car as opposed to mine that always has some piece of trash somewhere that bugs me but is JUST too far to bother picking up.

 

[Peter_Brosdahl]

 

[Zarathustra]

**** that ****.

If this comes to any of my usual stores, I'll just go somewhere else.

I understand advertising is a reality in the world, but if it starts inconveniencing me to where it makes it even more difficult to find stuff in the store, I'm not going to waste my time at that store.

 

[Peter_Brosdahl]

**** that ****.

If this comes to any of my usual stores, I'll just go somewhere else.

I understand advertising is a reality in the world, but if it starts inconveniencing me to where it makes it even more difficult ofind stuff in the store, I'm not going to waste my time at that store.

Same here, for as long as I can make that stance. We do most of our shopping at Wallyworld and already put time into organizing our lists just so I can streamline getting everything in the 30-40 minutes I've got in between getting off work, doing the shopping, and then picking up my wife so we can go straight home right after. I will definitely send complaints to them if they install this crap.