Re: Video advertising on gas pumps.

 On Tue, 19 Jun 2007 16:29:20 -0700, in rec.motorcycles, Rayvan


Vote with your dollars, pal.  There's always a better deal down the road.

A few years ago, my local supermarket (part of a chain which shall remain
anonymous, but their initials are Albertson's) installed flatscreens at
every checkout, dedicated to playing ads at the queue line.  On a continuous
and rather short loop.  I mean, FUCK that's annoying...the same three ads,
playing back to back to back to back to back.  So I quit going there.  I've
never been back, and I made sure the manager knew exactly why (that, plus
the loyalty card bullshit, plus replacing the actual express checkout with
those asinine self-checkouts and then deliberately understaffing the real
checkouts).

I took my business a mile down the road to a local chain store.  No video
ads, no loyalty card, better prices, better selection, better support for
local products, and ample staffing at the checkouts.  I'm much happier
patronizing this place...and I make sure that the manager knows exactly why.

So, yeah.  I haven't had the...pleasure...of in-pump video ads, but it's
something that I would not tolerate.  If my usual fuel stop installs that
shit, I'll definitely move along to some other watering hole.  It's already
bad enough that there are so many printed ads stuck to the pump that you
can't even read the operating/safety instruction decals...hard to see how
that can be legal.

Part of me wants to explore the idea of guerilla sabotage of active
forced-audience advertising facilities.  Seems like a lot of pricey
technology being hung out in relatively unsupervised places.  Be a shame if
something...happened to it, ya know?

-Scott
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Scott, meet George Hayduke.

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  I base my buying decisions on advertising all the time.  If I see an ad
that irks me for some reason I vow then and there to boycott that product
eternally.

(note the lack of emoticons)

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I wrote to Shell's marketing dept. asking them for a list of Shell
stations here in San Jose that *don't* have the annoying video pumps.
Do I think they'll reply? No, but It *may* make 'em think....
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  Unless they start getting lots of those requests you'll likely be lost in
the static...

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