Comment by grebc
4 hours ago
I can fathom the product losses from this one incident would outweigh all the imaginary reasons people tell themselves for why monitoring/connected/smart devices are useful in their work/home.
Definitely won’t stop anyone buying though is the saddest part.
When a freezer stops working and nobody notices for a while, the food will spoil then, too.
If it were monitoring-only, rather than connected to the power, it would probably be fine.
It’s a supermarket, staff will be stocktaking, restocking, walking past A LOT.
True, but they'd need to be specifically checking a thermometer or it might warm up a fair bit before being noticed.
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Well "a" (aka 1) freezer malfunctionning will let a few items spoil. Hundreds of connected appliances nation wide, that's a different story.
They had been able to manage just fine for several decades before internet of shits happened.
Fear not for them though, they'll go whine under the government's noze and get a refund. So much for the liberalism they praise when everything is fine for them.
I can fathom these have caught more failures than they've caused for these supermarkets, not counting the other ways they use smart devices. If there's a sad part to be found it's in single points of failure but even that may not be far off cost optimal in the long run.
But the way you find out which kind of scenario is by getting the loss and savings data and comparing it, not wondering what could be true and declaring it be the saddest one.