Walgreens Replaced Fridge Doors With Smart Screens. It's Now a $200 Million Fiasco

Walgreens Boots Alliance has ended a $200 million digital display venture with startup Cooler Screens after widespread technical failures and poor revenue, removing thousands of smart screens from its store freezer doors [non-paywalled link]. The screens, which displayed product information and ads, frequently crashed, showed incorrect inventory, and occasionally caught fire, Bloomberg reports.
Cooler Screens CEO Arsen Avakian cut data feeds to over 100 Chicago-area stores in December 2023 durin