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An article with a picture or two: https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/12/business/walgreens-freezer-screens/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/12/business/walgreens

• nacs 5y ago
  There's a video in that article too and it shows the stupidity of this design better.. So the transparent doors are now giant screens that show video ads all over them until you're in front of it. When you're in front of it, it shows all the stuff it may have inside. The "may" is where the really stupid part of this tech comes into play -- the screen shows what is available on a fully stocked shelf but when you open it to look inside, you can see there may be entire rows/products that aren't in stock (as seen in some customer videos in the article).
• MBCook 5y ago
  THANK YOU. I know some people like the “low distraction” of something like CNN’s lite mode but I hate it. Since there are no pictures I can’t see what they’re talking about, and that’s often important for the story (like here). An ad blocker serves me just fine. Or I could turn on reader mode in my browser. Either way I still get the pictures. And they’re important to me.
• Gigachad 5y ago
  This version is much better. Should have been the OP link. Honestly it doesn’t look terrible from a UX perspective while it’s working. Pointless maybe, but it’s much better than some displays I have seen which don’t show all the products on screen at once.