ads instead of useful info

It rotates and after some minutes shows the departure times. But if you’re in hurry you want the time immediately, not after a while

  • usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca
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    1 day ago

    This drives me wild in fast food restaurants. I’m already here, I’m going to give you money, so don’t make it harder or more frustrating!

    • lobut@lemmy.world
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      1 day ago

      It’s genuinely jarring because some places don’t organize it logically so you’re scouring the board and it switched and you gotta figure where you were … makes me wanna slap the person that came up with this idea.

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        8 hours ago

        It’s gotta be intentional. You and me might walk into a restaurant and make our own decision on what to order, but there must be some sort of market research that shows random ads and rotating items to be effective against a non-zero part of the population.