I was recently at a Shell gas station near Hagerstown, Maryland that has video monitors above all the gas pumps. Once you activate the pump and begin pumping gas it starts playing commercials. You’ll get anything from commercials for upcoming TV shows to commercials for products or companies. Once you quit pumping it shuts back off.
Reminds me of the targeted billboards people joked about 5 years ago. I wonder if everybody gets the same ads or if it has some mechanism to target you via your credit card or car you drive. That’d be scary.
Ryan Technology advertisements, gas station, privacy
I was looking through the ads in the newspaper yesterday morning and came across one I didn’t expect to see. The ad is for Value City Furniture and was titled “After Christmas Sale – Starts Today!”
Confused, I looked at my watch, and it was indeed only December 21st, 4 days before Christmas. Just to double check, I looked at the back of the ad and it said that sale prices were “in effect from receipt of circular through January 5th, 2009.”
I’m really not sure if the ad came early by accident or if the furniture companies really are getting that ruthless and have begun a new sort of post-Christmas-sale creep.
Ryan Personal advertisements, christmas
