Hey, it drives innovation for further automation. Replacing people with machines!
Making the rich (the engineers inventors and innovators) richer and the poor unemployed and back on the government tit where the left wants them!
thats true, I just bought 4 unique vending machines and am considering buy a 5th.
I got one of these ($10K new, I bought for $3K at auction):
I bought three of these at an auction for $1,600 total ($20K+ new with shipping & taxes):
I am also considering buying this to install on the face of a building I own in a high traffic area a few steps away from a hike and bike trail:
the cool thing about the first two machines is I can sell high ticket items vs the cheap crap in traditional vending machines. All of the above will be cashless and only take credit or debit cards. They have inventory management over the web so I know what's selling and not and what needs to be be refilled.
I hope to create an app where it can be completely touch-less so you can buy over your app on your phone and then use geofencing to tell the machine your in proximity and when to make the product available. Plus once I get a decent number of users signed up, I can use the app to do flash sales of inventory thats moving slow to clear out that SKU or to do a limited release item with only a specific number available to create urgency to buy.
we might also use one of them in conjunction with a tiny butcher shop where you can pick up aged meats and charcuterie 24/7/365. Same idea with a small sweet shop that could sell cookies, candies and cakes/pies
I think the vending machine is finally getting the makeover it needs and when married with modern technology plus control over the internet, its going to make this a concept we see applied to all kinds of products
