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Theoretically you could insulate the door better now that you’re not beholden to glass. Theoretically. And you have the cancel out the energy draw of the screens and the heat they produce inside the door, so good luck with that.
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# ? Jun 26, 2021 10:27 |
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# ? May 27, 2024 20:54 |
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Larry Parrish posted:it's actually so they don't have to waste labor rotating all the labels to the right side out. sometimes your coke etc rep will freak out and threaten to cancel over this kind of thing. ive watched it happen between my manager and some idiot sales manager before. thats insane but also im thinking itd kind of be a kickass job to just be some horrible apparition that haunts grocery stores when they gently caress up the agreed upon rituals chasing some group of twenty some clerks in a darkened sams club and destroying them one by one until the last one banishes me by assembling a flawless super bowl sunday arrangement of the soda inventory
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# ? Jun 26, 2021 10:43 |
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Tiler Kiwi posted:thats insane but also im thinking itd kind of be a kickass job to just be some horrible apparition that haunts grocery stores when they gently caress up the agreed upon rituals they consider the labeling to be basically a form of advertisment and so when it's not all neat and arranged your damaging their advertisement lol. you might have noticed big chain stores don't give a poo poo, that's because they don't have to deal with the kind of moron that becomes a regional sales rep for gas stations etc
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# ? Jun 26, 2021 10:48 |
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marketing is one of those things that you can sit back and analyze and figure yeah, it makes sense for it to work this way given all the conditions in place and how the world operates, but you still hear about a guy whose job it is to get coke products oriented correctly in gas stations or hunting down the misuse of micky mouse in daycares and you just have to wonder how they dont lie in bed at night wishing they'd wake up as a giant kafka bug instead of the absolutely insane joke life they live every day and then like, all of modern tech poo poo is in some way devoted to expanding the reach and scope of adverts and brand name power, lol
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# ? Jun 26, 2021 11:05 |
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bullshit jobs are a lot more widespread than just marketing also i've seen shops cover fridge doors with gigantic vinyl advertisements before which at least have the advantage of not having a failure mode that fucks both purposes i wonder how much of the drive for this poo poo is actually supporting dynamic/discriminatory pricing
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# ? Jun 26, 2021 11:14 |
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fired from the convenience mart for paneling 1guy1jar across the beverage fridges on loop
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# ? Jun 26, 2021 11:23 |
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goatse for the frozen meats aislesmarxist posted:
who run babybattertown Alan Smithee has issued a correction as of 11:28 on Jun 26, 2021 |
# ? Jun 26, 2021 11:26 |
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Alan Smithee posted:goatse for the frozen meats aisle Master Buster runs babybattertown
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# ? Jun 26, 2021 15:28 |
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Tiler Kiwi posted:marketing is one of those things that you can sit back and analyze and figure yeah, it makes sense for it to work this way given all the conditions in place and how the world operates, but you still hear about a guy whose job it is to get coke products oriented correctly in gas stations or hunting down the misuse of micky mouse in daycares and you just have to wonder how they dont lie in bed at night wishing they'd wake up as a giant kafka bug instead of the absolutely insane joke life they live every day i find it's less morally troubling to conceptualize work as tricking companies into paying you.
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# ? Jun 26, 2021 15:35 |
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Rutibex posted:there is no need to choose between imperial and metric, they are both fine systems and both have their use. try the Canadian method the next time you want to measure something! i have the weirdest boner
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# ? Jun 26, 2021 16:19 |
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Tiler Kiwi posted:the "we can put adverts all over it" angle does make it make a lot more sense you could already put adverts on the glass freezer doors! My local grocery tapes at least one of those starburst sales notices on every freezer case. This really is a solution looking for a problem; we already had tape and sticker technology to enable advertising on glass doors
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# ? Jun 26, 2021 17:38 |
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Tiler Kiwi posted:marketing is one of those things that you can sit back and analyze and figure yeah, it makes sense for it to work this way given all the conditions in place and how the world operates, but you still hear about a guy whose job it is to get coke products oriented correctly in gas stations or hunting down the misuse of micky mouse in daycares and you just have to wonder how they dont lie in bed at night wishing they'd wake up as a giant kafka bug instead of the absolutely insane joke life they live every day earlier today i saw a weather warning for near where i live so i tried to go to weather.com to see if i was in imminent danger of death and weather.com informed me that to learn if i was in danger of dying from weather i would need to disable my adblocker
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# ? Jun 26, 2021 21:13 |
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vyelkin posted:earlier today i saw a weather warning for near where i live so i tried to go to weather.com to see if i was in imminent danger of death and weather.com informed me that to learn if i was in danger of dying from weather i would need to disable my adblocker never use weather.com, always use weather.gov
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# ? Jun 26, 2021 21:44 |
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advertising should be illegal except for one giant phonebook per city you can visit and leaf through. also each company only gets one page.
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# ? Jun 27, 2021 00:38 |
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PopZeus posted:advertising should be illegal except for one giant phonebook per city you can visit and leaf through. also each company only gets one page.
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# ? Jun 27, 2021 03:00 |
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this is 5 days old so i apologize if this has been posted already. this feels like the right thread for this content, a new upgrade for our hell-system just dropped! https://www.vice.com/en/article/4avnnn/a-cctv-company-is-paying-remote-workers-in-india-to-yell-at-armed-robbers Clerks at 7-Eleven and other convenience stores are being constantly monitored by a voice of god that can intervene from thousands of miles away. quote:In a short CCTV video, a clerk at a small convenience store can be seen taking a bottle of coffee from a cooler and drinking it. When he returns to the cash register, an unseen person's voice emits from a speaker on the ceiling and interrogates him about whether he scanned and paid for the item.
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# ? Jun 27, 2021 15:33 |
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Oneiros posted:bullshit jobs are a lot more widespread than just marketing https://twitter.com/MannistoM/status/1408825562156707840?s=20 Rent seeking soda prices
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# ? Jun 28, 2021 03:12 |
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convenience stores by dahiir insaat
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# ? Jun 28, 2021 03:18 |
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Someone needs to swirly matti
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# ? Jun 28, 2021 03:33 |
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Milo and POTUS posted:Someone needs to swirly matti yes, "swirly"....
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# ? Jun 28, 2021 03:43 |
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# ? Jun 28, 2021 14:19 |
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for a moment I thought one side was just the AI versus paying humans and I was like "well duh" I mean the copy written won't be any worse...
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# ? Jun 28, 2021 16:21 |
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ad copy is meaningless whether written by AI or humans
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# ? Jun 28, 2021 18:14 |
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Nothus posted:https://twitter.com/MannistoM/status/1408825562156707840?s=20 This is the guy who sells these things
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# ? Jun 29, 2021 00:50 |
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How does dynamic pricing on a LCD display even make sense? The price is determined by the bar code when you bring it to the register…not what a sign on the shelf says
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# ? Jun 29, 2021 00:59 |
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BattleMaster posted:This is the guy who sells these things just like i thought! Chewlies gum!!!
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# ? Jun 29, 2021 01:02 |
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The Nastier Nate posted:How does dynamic pricing on a LCD display even make sense? The price is determined by the bar code when you bring it to the register…not what a sign on the shelf says You're assuming a traditional checkout, instead of something app-based, where you just put it in your basket and walk out the door.
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# ? Jun 29, 2021 01:04 |
The Nastier Nate posted:How does dynamic pricing on a LCD display even make sense? The price is determined by the bar code when you bring it to the register…not what a sign on the shelf says bar codes identify what's being sold, not prices. "2 liters of X soda costs 15 cents more today" doesn't require changing bar codes, just changing what X soda costs in the POS system.
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# ? Jun 29, 2021 01:04 |
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FFT posted:bar codes identify what's being sold, not prices. "2 liters of X soda costs 15 cents more today" doesn't require changing bar codes, just changing what X soda costs in the POS system. Yes that’s true but neither of those things have anything to do with what the magic mirror says. A non-traditional checkout makes more sense
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# ? Jun 29, 2021 01:08 |
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BattleMaster posted:This is the guy who sells these things also have to question what kind of bougie fantasy-world shitlib assumptions go into the reasoning that decides it's a good idea to devote more space to pushing what the sellers want to sell, regardless of whether anyone wants to buy their garbage products and whether that means the stuff people actually did want to buy becomes harder to find, or dynamic pricing to make potential customers have to rethink whether they want to buy something at inflated prices now or put it off for later (or never) are we certain that adverting Idea Guys are even sapient?
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# ? Jun 29, 2021 01:10 |
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silentsnack posted:also have to question what kind of bougie fantasy-world shitlib assumptions go into the reasoning that decides it's a good idea to devote more space to pushing what the sellers want to sell, regardless of whether anyone wants to buy their garbage products and whether that means the stuff people actually did want to buy becomes harder to find, or dynamic pricing to make potential customers have to rethink whether they want to buy something at inflated prices now or put it off for later (or never) Theyre parasitic scum, slimy rotten things usually found in fetid swamps who feast on the blood of larger more evolved creatures passing by.
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# ? Jun 29, 2021 01:13 |
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The pricing system registering the barcode would be dynamic and determined when it is rung up at the register. the display is just for showing that price. temperature goes up, well maybe bottled water costs more in the afternoon sun. God I hate that I thought about that for more than 5 seconds. gently caress capitalist vampires
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# ? Jun 29, 2021 01:13 |
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I think he is saying the POS and the cooler doors are tied together.
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# ? Jun 29, 2021 01:13 |
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silentsnack posted:also have to question what kind of bougie fantasy-world shitlib assumptions go into the reasoning that decides it's a good idea to devote more space to pushing what the sellers want to sell, regardless of whether anyone wants to buy their garbage products and whether that means the stuff people actually did want to buy becomes harder to find, or dynamic pricing to make potential customers have to rethink whether they want to buy something at inflated prices now or put it off for later (or never)
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# ? Jun 29, 2021 01:14 |
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The Nastier Nate posted:Yes that’s true but neither of those things have anything to do with what the magic mirror says. It is entirely trivial to change what price an item scans at. But you need to change the advertised price just as quickly and fluidly, because if the scanned price is higher than the displayed price (on the shelf) you are in legal hot water.
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# ? Jun 29, 2021 01:15 |
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The Lone Badger posted:It is entirely trivial to change what price an item scans at. But you need to change the advertised price just as quickly and fluidly, because if the scanned price is higher than the displayed price (on the shelf) you are in legal hot water. The volume of poo poo that currently scans at the wrong price could probably fill many, many stadiums. Once you start involving an algorithm they can blame, it will shoot up orders of magnitude. And let's not pretend there's a lot to lose for the grocery stores, here; at the very worst, they'll be forced to pay back some tiny percentage of their ill-gotten gains.
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# ? Jun 29, 2021 01:29 |
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just what we need; a way to make surge pricing on commodities easier
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# ? Jun 29, 2021 01:43 |
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Thanatosian posted:I don't know how true it is, but I've been told that brands frequently pay grocery stores for prime shelf placement. That would strongly incentivize them to want to stock the brands paying them the most, I would think. This is absolutely true. You have to fight and pay for your facings.
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# ? Jun 29, 2021 01:45 |
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*unironic tech bro voice*smarxist posted:just what we need; a way to make surge pricing on commodities easier
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# ? Jun 29, 2021 02:49 |
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# ? May 27, 2024 20:54 |
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Crow Buddy posted:I think he is saying the POS and the cooler doors are tied together. Yeah, what this gets rid of is a printed price tag on the product or on the shelf that the retailer is stuck with even if suddenly the customer is willing to pay more than what was printed out on the tag a month ago.
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# ? Jun 29, 2021 05:19 |