How can we make our refridgerators even less energy efficient? I know! Digital displays!
It might let you see through it. Which is what they DON'T want.
They want the customer to open the fridge because the act of opening the fridge is a commitment to a purchase. If the product you want isn't there you are much more likely to purchase something else that is there because you've already made the mental decision to commit to a purchase in your head for the other product that you did want.
Yep that's precisely what's going on.
This is all "how can we optimise this interaction even more, and even more, and even more?" over time. There is always one more thing you can do to further manipulate sales out of people that otherwise would not occur. The simplest interactions will continue to be optimised further and further, in excruciating detail and thought about how the psychology plays out.
Can't buy anything in the fridge if there's nothing in it. :think-about-it:
also the fact that people will open the door even if the product is sold out, letting the cool air out
Buh....buh......da F00TUR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11111111111111111111111!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I saw on twitter recently that there's a right-to-privacy lawsuit pending against the company that makes these doors. Apparently they keep track of which sets of drinks people look at, to know what drinks to display more.
That's the only possible reason you'd want to install these things in the first place. Glass would be better in every possible way.
Don't forget they plan on putting cameras in them to track your response to the ads and which items you looked at and collect more data for more ads :joker-shopping:
Ah yes, one thing partners in a relationship love - to feel as though things as transactional.
If your relationship isn't founded on the principles of communism is it even true love
Imagine going through life where the deepest connection you can make with another human is the same one you have with a vending machine.
He can choose to to that at any point without fucking with the rest of us
I thought this was going to be some smart vending machine from Japan, but when they open the door, hey it's still the same inside!
I would love it if the bottles shake, but depending on what is on your bank account the doors might not open and unhappy smileys appear. This way "the poor" wont even see that the abundant luxury is not abundant and think they are guilty of not having enough money.
It’s the illusion of abundance.
a very anglo thing. It's extremely anglo to have 230498123 different names for a piece of toast, because having 230498123 different names provides an illusion that there are 230498123 different, exciting things. When really it's just a piece of toast cut into 230498123 different shapes, or mixed with 230498123 different trivial ingredient combinations
4 dishes I can think of off the top of my head: puliogre, tonkotsu, coq au vin, beef stroganoff. The first three literally translate to "sour mix", "pork bones", and "chicken with wine". It's only the Anglo ones that seek to adopt thousands of different nonsensical (from their point of view, since these are foreign names, and it's not like they're ever actually interested in the history/etymology of it) names for very trivial dishes (it's not like they actually ever make stroganoff in the traditional way)
It’s extremely anglo to have 230498123 different names for a piece of toast
It's hardly unique to anglos, how many spanish names are there for tortilla+meat+veggies? Japanese names for some variation of fried egg?
Capitalism has always been about the big, big promise of great wealth, just round the corner, forever, until you die. This is a slightly-too-on-the-nose realisation of this.
God, how much resource it took to design, manufacture, transport, install, and operate this thing.
and be explicitly worse than the glass panel it replaces. It even has an ongoing cost in power, it's basically performance art
it’s basically performance art
Woah woah woah.
Performance art is worthy of respect. This is not.
That's what really blows my mind about all of this shit. The engineering that went into designing it, the materials that go into it, the labor of putting it all together. The sheer scale of effort that goes into making this a thing that could and should be spent developing real, useful stuff is shameful.
So what's the point of having the display when you need to open the door and see the drinks anyway?
Seeing more lo-fi, but similar solutions around me. Grocery shelves are rotating outages here. What I've seen lately is grocery stores putting these cardboard spacers behind the goods on the shelf to essentially halve the amount of space so things still look stocked.
In communist countries, describes thing that happens in capitalist countries
So, how do we defeat these things? Will magnets fuck them up enough or do I gotta pack an emergency hammer in my purse
