<story><title>Cooler screens</title><url>https://computer.rip/2023-10-22-cooler-screens.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sspiff</author><text>A fun aside: Cooler Screens, the company making these, used to be the CEO of Walgreens, and Walgreens is their only &amp;quot;whale&amp;quot; customer.&lt;p&gt;Walgreens began to sour on the idea of the idea of these screens, and the current CEO basically cancelled the whole deal when he came in, calling them ugly, costly and ineffective.&lt;p&gt;Cooler Screens has been forced to take back many of the screens, which are custom made to the size of the Walgreens coolers, and cannot be resold of reused without getting new coolers to go with them.&lt;p&gt;Cooler Screens is suing Walgreens over this, but this is very much looking like a failed dystopian experiment.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ToucanLoucan</author><text>&amp;gt; A fun aside: Cooler Screens, the company making these, used to be the CEO of Walgreens, and Walgreens is their only &amp;quot;whale&amp;quot; customer.&lt;p&gt;Suddenly this absolutely brain-dead idea catching any traction at all with any business suddenly at least makes a tiny bit of sense.&lt;p&gt;Not a lot. But a tiny bit.</text></comment>
<story><title>Cooler screens</title><url>https://computer.rip/2023-10-22-cooler-screens.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sspiff</author><text>A fun aside: Cooler Screens, the company making these, used to be the CEO of Walgreens, and Walgreens is their only &amp;quot;whale&amp;quot; customer.&lt;p&gt;Walgreens began to sour on the idea of the idea of these screens, and the current CEO basically cancelled the whole deal when he came in, calling them ugly, costly and ineffective.&lt;p&gt;Cooler Screens has been forced to take back many of the screens, which are custom made to the size of the Walgreens coolers, and cannot be resold of reused without getting new coolers to go with them.&lt;p&gt;Cooler Screens is suing Walgreens over this, but this is very much looking like a failed dystopian experiment.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rsynnott</author><text>What is it with Walgreens and adopting terrible tech ideas? This apparently started in 2017, shortly after Walgreens had terminated their Theranos partnership; you&amp;#x27;d think that would have given them pause.</text></comment>