[HN Gopher] Sorry, we replaced that old technology, "see-through...
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       Sorry, we replaced that old technology, "see-through glass"
        
       Author : dmart
       Score  : 17 points
       Date   : 2021-06-25 21:58 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
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       | profmonocle wrote:
       | I hope that these things don't periodically switch from showing
       | the actual products & prices to showing a full-screen ad for
       | something. A movie theater near me does that with their screen-
       | based menus. Very annoying to be trying to decide what you want
       | and suddenly have the menu vanish.
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       | It's a bit sad to think how wasteful these are. Not just the
       | waste produced by producing the screens and powering them all
       | day, but the fact that you can't reliably see what's in there by
       | looking means people will just learn to open it and browse with
       | the door open, letting the cold air out.
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       | Edit: Also, does anyone know what the cameras are for, if not
       | facial recognition or CCTV? I'm guessing it's eye tracking for
       | market research. I suppose that could be anonymized and
       | aggregated on-device in a privacy-preserving way, but you'd have
       | to take their word for it.
        
         | tootie wrote:
         | They absolutely do. That's the main point of them in fact.
         | Revenue for the supermarket. But really it's not a downgrade.
         | Every package is designed to basically be an ad already.
        
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