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- From: jay@ecsvax.uncecs.edu (Jay Novello)
- Subject: Re: Trucker TV to scramble?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan3.205943.14400@ecsvax.uncecs.edu>
- Organization: UNC Educational Computing Service
- References: <1992Dec30.132201.20194@ecsvax.uncecs.edu> <1993Jan2.205323.28577@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> <1993Jan2.231233.9900@ecsvax.uncecs.edu> <y4trs0f@lynx.unm.edu>
- Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 20:59:43 GMT
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- roberts@triton.unm.edu (Robert Smathers) writes:
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- >In article <1993Jan2.231233.9900@ecsvax.uncecs.edu> jay@ecsvax.uncecs.edu (Jay Novello) writes:
- >>
- >>I ask because my local Food Lion has installed the Checkout Channel
-
- >>pre-prepared products). What's the deal with the Checkout Channel? I
- >>can't imagine the store paying for the service; to me it looks just like
- >>the little ad spaces on the shopping carts, or the ads on the aisle
- >>signs, or the ads on the lights showing the number of the checkout lane.
- >>
- >>So what about these services? Who pays?
-
- >My dish installer friend recently sent in a proposal to install
- >the Checkout Channel in local grocery stores. The way he explained
- >it to me: Turner provides the dishes and pays experienced dish
- >installers to install the systems in grocery stores. The service
- >is supported by commercial advertisers [my comment: you know those
- >people whose ads appear every 10 secs! ;) ]
-
- >What a good deal if you can find a grocery store that wants it!
-
- So... what makes a grocery store want it? Isn't every available square
- inch of a supermarket already covered in ads!?
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- Jay Novello jay@ecsvax.uncecs.edu
- University of North Carolina Institute for Transportation Research and Education
- Raleigh, North Carolina, USA
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