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ASDA, home of the discounted doughnut and misshapen denim, is looking to the future of in-store information, after successfully replacing the mundane in-store tannoy announcement with new, holographic members of staff.
The idea was to have holographic members of staff greeting shoppers and informing them of how many doughnuts can he acquired for 99p today. Apparently this holographic system has been trialed in an ASDA branch in Milton Keynes since January, where shoppers allegedly embraced their new holographic in-store personnel.
Despite the successful trial, ASDA says it doesn’t have any plan to roll out the holographic staff on a national basis just yet, although it would be a step up from the emotionless robots it usually has manning the tills and aisles. [Telegraph]
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“where shoppers allegedly embraced their new holographic in-store personnel” – and discovered that their arms went right through them, causing them to fall over.
“emotionless robots it usually has manning the tills and aisles.”
I’m sat here in my Tesco uniform, about to go to work so thanks for that (unless you just mean Asda ha)!
Really though a lot of people I work with are. I thinks it’s because they don’t mind working there, but I’m a filmmaker, I get bored.
Check again.
You are in fact a hologram.
I now have this vision of a really fast pigeon doing an Old Spice-style comedy routine, telling a Tesco employee he’s a hologram.
I call those ‘weekdays’…
Sent from my iHorse.
Did they have the big H on their heads? if not it was a trick
or maybe a sims diamond that’s always bright green! This could get good
They really need to get Dean Stockwell to play the greeter…
This would be cool, if it wasn’t almost completely untrue. They weren’t trialling it and aren’t rolling it out or even thinking about it. It was a one week thing where a friend of the store manager asked if he could test his ‘holographic’ assistant. It was completely organised by the manager and not Asda.
I actually live in Milton Keynes and when I visited asda about a month ago. the holographic woman was there and it was fantastic! I was so surprised how well it looked !I was impressed and it had a lot of attention from kids to adults. I have not seen the holographic woman for about a month now though :/ they seem to have put her away