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why do pharmacies have these signs with whacky animations? (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

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I've seen these all over Europe. Some have simple images of the cross flashing, some have windows screensaver esque animations, and some have 3d renders of various things rotating in all sorts of ways. Why is that? Wouldn't a simple green cross be enough to get the point across, or do they need to be overly verbose? Here's the full video instead of a gif

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[-] Bronzie@sh.itjust.works 13 points 4 months ago

I’ve seen them in southern Europe on vacation, but never in the Nordics. Allways thought it was a Iberian/Latin thing (FR, ES, IT, PT). Guess they are more common than I thought.

[-] tmpod@lemmy.pt 6 points 4 months ago

Can confirm that in Portugal, pretty much every single pharmacy has one of these, with varying degrees of wacky 2D/3D animations and info display.

[-] Wootz@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

They're slowing creeping in here in Denmark.

There is one around the corner from where I live. It doesn't display anything but time and temperature (yet), but every time I walk past I secretly hope they've fired up the rave machine.

[-] Sparky@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 4 months ago

Can confirm that Norway does not have those signs

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