Every so often, they caught fire.

  • barrbaric [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    Just a giant shitshow and confluence of utter morons at all levels. Highlights:

    • The main guy in charge is a scam artist
    • The former Walgreens CEO who partnered with the scam artist invested $140M in Theranos, and is therefore a complete dipshit
    • They don’t even make the screens themselves
    • The scam artist is serious apple fanboy, and asked designers repeatedly to make the giant screens “more like an iphone”
    • The scam artist wanted the doors to respond to voice controls
    • The doors frequently just didn’t work
    • When the doors did work, they often didn’t actually show what was inside of them because whoever set up the screen’s images remotely had put the wrong things on it
    • The ads didn’t even make money
    • Apparently fridge doors aren’t standardized so they can’t be used anywhere else now that Walgreens backed out of the deal, and there are $50M worth of panels sitting in a warehouse
    • Walgreens is now trying out their own in-store screens

    And these absolute fucking buffoons have more money than you or I will ever see.