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Thu 23 Aug, 2007 10:37 am
Recently I have seen TVs in Malls and grocery stores and I don't like it! When I'm shopping especially in the grocery store, I'm not going to stop and watch some recipe thing they had going on - I only knew it was some sort of cooking/recipe as I couldn't help but overhear it. That's another thing; I cannot stand hearing the advertisements and whatever else crap they have on when I shop. So far this is the only grocery store I have seen these TVs in - so I can at least shop elsewhere.
What the heck is going on?
It baffled me when I saw that the local grocer had put in a TV. It was angled so that anyone waiting in a very long check out line could watch while they waited, but it also was aimed at the deli, distracting the people working there. They have the news on, most of the time, or political talk programs. Very odd.
Hrrmmm... This is a new thing that I haven't seen yet.
It it the store's way to demonstrating that they've gone "high tech" or just another way to through sales pitches at you for things you probably don't need?
Skip the nonsense and keep the prices down!
fishin wrote:Hrrmmm... This is a new thing that I haven't seen yet.
It it the store's way to demonstrating that they've gone "high tech" or just another way to through sales pitches at you for things you probably don't need?
Skip the nonsense and keep the prices down!
I think it is advertising.
Can you spell "C-A-P-T-I-V-E A-U-D-I-E-N-C-E"?
I was in Stop and Shop yesterday and noticed that everyone who entered the front door was recorded on film by a large camera at the top of the door.
Why?
linkat, are these tv's showing regular tv shows or just like receipes and and ads for stuff they want you to buy?
Something that just started here at gas stations really annoys me.
First it started with some loud obnoxious commercial being played on a speaker while you pumped your gas. You can mute it, but it's a pain in the butt.
Now, a lot of stations ask for your zip code before you can pump. I really hate that. The first time I screwed it up, like hit enter before putting in all the numbers...it told me to try again....just for the hell of it, I put in the zip code of where I grew up 2000 miles away. It wouldn't take it, or let me pump.
I thought, "what if I was just traveling through the area and didn't know a local zip code"
so I went in and shot the attendant, and turned all the pumps on for free gas for everybody.
Don't mess with me.
Chai wrote:linkat, are these tv's showing regular tv shows or just like receipes and and ads for stuff they want you to buy?
Something that just started here at gas stations really annoys me.
First it started with some loud obnoxious commercial being played on a speaker while you pumped your gas. You can mute it, but it's a pain in the butt.
Now, a lot of stations ask for your zip code before you can pump. I really hate that. The first time I screwed it up, like hit enter before putting in all the numbers...it told me to try again....just for the hell of it, I put in the zip code of where I grew up 2000 miles away. It wouldn't take it, or let me pump.
I thought, "what if I was just traveling through the area and didn't know a local zip code"
so I went in and shot the attendant, and turned all the pumps on for free gas for everybody.
Don't mess with me.
You're Awesome!
I didn't stop to watch - it sounded like they were making something like a recipe, but the jist I was getting it was advertising some sort of food item.
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Quote: was in Stop and Shop yesterday and noticed that everyone who entered the front door was recorded on film by a large camera at the top of the door.
Why?
Because it is "Stop and Shop" , not "Stop and Shoplift" or "Stop and Commit Armed Robbery".
I see the occasional tv at the mall, i'm not sure i've ever seen one at the grocery store... but i get at least one a week at some of the clubs i play.....the adams apple gives 'em away though...
Chai wrote: Now, a lot of stations ask for your zip code before you can pump. I really hate that. The first time I screwed it up, like hit enter before putting in all the numbers...it told me to try again....just for the hell of it, I put in the zip code of where I grew up 2000 miles away. It wouldn't take it, or let me pump.
That's a security feature. You have to know the zip code that the bill is sent to, or you can't pump.
Cisco's pushing a new product for advertising; flatscreen TVs connected to a computer network that display ads.
I guess they never heard of "cable."
DrewDad wrote:Chai wrote: Now, a lot of stations ask for your zip code before you can pump. I really hate that. The first time I screwed it up, like hit enter before putting in all the numbers...it told me to try again....just for the hell of it, I put in the zip code of where I grew up 2000 miles away. It wouldn't take it, or let me pump.
That's a security feature. You have to know the zip code that the bill is sent to, or you can't pump.
well then, I'm sorry I shot that attendant.
fortunately, it was just a flesh wound.
whenever i'm asked for my postal code, i always give them one of two, neither one mine
on the CBC (national radio), there used to be a program called basic black, hosted by arthur black, to make the postal address easy to remember he used to make up little phrases to go along with the postal code
when he was toronto it was Make 5 Wieners I'll Eat 6 (M5W 1E6) and when he moved to vancouver, he used Vacuum 6 Basements 4 Attics Too (V6B 4A2)
i switch up using these postal codes at stores all over the windsor area, i wonder what it does to the data, these random visits from toronto and vancouver
some day, it'll all catch up to you.
it's a house of cards.
hehehe
I use the same postal codes djjd does. I suspect we're not alone ... a roving band of attic vacuumers ...
The TVs are probably also to distract you from the s....l....o.....w cashiers.
jespah wrote:The TVs are probably also to distract you from the s....l....o.....w cashiers.
could be this one was near the deli counter and you know how slow they can be!
The ones in the mall (for you Bostonians it was in the South Shore Mall) seem to be strictly advertising. It is kind of surreal when I first saw them - like I was in one of those Sci-Fi in the future sort of movie.
Like in Blade Runner?
When I first say that movie, and the moving advertisments, it really freaked me out.
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