If only there was some kind of transparent material we could make freezer doors out of so you could see what was in them.
Unfortunately this isn’t Star Trek.
ironically, transparent aluminum is real
Yeah, we call it “ruby” for red, “sapphire” for not-red, and more generally “corundum”
To be entirely fair, the glass doors are terrible for refrigeration efficiency because the glass is far less insulated than the door with the screen is. It might actually save electricity by powering a screen that shows a picture of the product over a insulated door than just having a glass door.
This implementation looks ugly as heck of course but if there’s a big enough energy efficiency gain I suppose it might be worth the trade off
Because glass was too complicated.
It’s so they can use facial recognition to determine which products you are most interested in
They don’t need a screen for that tho
If only there was some technology that would let us see through glass
Plot twist: that’s not paper
The good news is one they’re replaced if you can score a working unit for little to free it’ll make a awesome TTRPG table.
Any store installing that crap (it fortunately hasn’t arrived in my country yet) will lose me as a customer. I know it won’t hurt them, but I’m not dealing with shit like that.
