CBS Inks Deal to Appear in Supermarkets (there's no escaping big media)

[LiberalHeart]

NEW YORK (AP) -- As TV viewing habits evolve, networks are constantly trying new ways to reach viewers, including through the Internet, video iPods, and on-demand services from cable providers. Next up: the produce aisle.

In what appears to be a first, CBS has signed up to become a programming partner with SignStorey Inc., a Fairfield, Connecticut-based company that has video screens installed in 1,300 supermarkets nationwide.

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[Book Lover]

1. "...you can't change the channel."

But you can put a bag over the display. Or toss your coffee on a delicate, exposed part of the machinery.

[DRoseDARs]

2. Like this is new: I was in a new SuperWalmart and they had FAUX News...

...on every overhead tv. Shocking, I know.

[LiberalHeart]

5. Were they TVs for sale, or a broadcast deal? (n/t)

[Dont_Bogart_the_Pretzel]

12. local Sprint dealer had Faux news on when I was looking

for a phone....
I got up and left. I refuse to shop at that store.

[llmart]

24. I was in an eating establishment in a hotel......

and they had Faux News on and I asked the server to turn it off. He said he thought one of the customers was watching it, so our table of four got up and walked out!

[Blue_Tires]

3. only a matter of time

after they started pumping CNN and other Turner channels into airports, some other stations would want to get in on the captive audience market

[Nomen Tuum]

4. In California, 19th Century Fox did this at RALPH's Markets for a while

I took my business to Von's and Albertson's. I told the Ralphs manager I would never come back as long as they played those lies. He told me that 19th Century Fox PAID Ralphs a BIG SUM OF MONEY to do that.

[Trillo]

8. Interesting.

Does this mean that TV cable and satellite subscribers are subsidizing TV in supermarkets?

[SoCalDem]

21. BUT.. did Fox shop there every week??

People actually LIKE solitude in grocery stores.. They can watch TV at home..:grr:

around here restaurants (some of them) have TV on too.. and it always seems to be the Counrty Music channel or Fox.. We stopped going to a restaurant because they would not turn the damned TV off..

[last_texas_dem]

6. Oh well

I'd rather CBS than Fox! My local Kroger has Fox News advertisements on the shopping baskets and over the loudspeaker. Luckily, they don't actually pipe in their crap on TVs inside but I'm sure it's a matter of time.

[rfkrfk]

7. CBS --> meaningless backgroud noise .n/t

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

11. Coming soon: Elevators.

lol

[NashVegas]

13. Muzak Just Got Good

didn't it?

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

14. CSI: Otis.

Max viewership: 10

:rofl:

[high density]

9. This is horrid.

As if things like CNN Airport Network and Wal-Mart TV weren't bad enough, now we need to get blasted with it in supermarkets.

[mcscajun]

10. I'd rather see CBS in a supermarket than FauxSnooze anyday.

Better yet, NO TV in supermarkets. But...those decisions aren't up to us.

We can choose not to shop there, though.

[Sydnie]

15. this has been slowly making it's way into the market here in

Massachusetts. This summer (my job takes me into many different stores, grocery stores being one type), I was making a call on a Shaw's (Albertson's by another name now), and I had the pleasure of seeing Stephanie Miller tell me how to make a peanut butter/toilet paper roll bird feeder and some sort of dessert. I was working away and I heard that voice ... my legs carried me over to the register (where the screens are at every register) and I watched it loop through twice, just to make sure that it was her. It was.

I didn't mind the info that she was sharing, but can you imagine watching the news in the store if there is something really happening? 9/11 mixed with "Clean up on aisle 9 Herb".

[Dulcinea]

16. CNN tried this about 10 years ago.

The Checkout Channel.

It didn't fly because people were more interested in grocery shopping while actually at the supermarket than watching TV. (Imagine that!)

[drthais]

17. This.Totally.Sucks.

It's bad enough you cannot go into a 'restaurant' without seeing television
(which we usually ask to have turned off)

[LiberalHeart]

18. I do that, too -- also ask that music be turned off or down.

Very cute baby, by the way.

[Voltaire99]

19. Heh. I don't expect this will be popping up in our co-op.

We all hate Big Media there. :-)

Sorry to learn the captive audiences in the big box grocers will have to suffer through another round of propaganda.

[annabanana]

20. Jeez! I have to think while I shop...

I have to compose menues for the coming week, do math, read labels, double check my lists, visualize cabinets that I forgot to check before I left the house. I find the muzak a distraction.

Where can I get one of those handy-dandy little TV zappers?

[THUNDER HANDS]

22. Fox News plays in Wal-mart

although, I doubt if anyone on here finds this surprising.

[mtnester]

23. The only positive to this is that now you will not be forced to watch FAUX

news EVERY damn where.