Vending Machines

[Hemulen]

Every street corner in Japan (my pic from Kyoto 2016) had a drink vending machine. They were often exposed to direct sunlight which seemed a huge loss of energy. I've only seen a few food or drink vending machines in Finland (mainly in high schools, universities, hotels, airports and big office buildings) but distinct coffee machines exist everywhere - even in the car tire center we use. There used to be dozens of gambling machines in every supermarket lobby, mall, cruise ship and gas station in the past - first without any supervision, then for people over 16 years, later only for adults - but now the near-monopoly government-run national betting company Veikkaus is facing allegations of promoting pathological gambling and is cutting down on the apparatus.

A pic from the "good old times".

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[TastyReuben]

We still have a fair amount of vending machines around where I live. Two on each floor of the office, and any shopping mall will have them.

 

[caseydog]

We still have a fair amount of vending machines around where I live. Two on each floor of the office, and any shopping mall will have them.

Yeah, but I've seen videos about vending machines in Japan. You can buy a complete meal from vending machines there.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmFdOFxJQzM


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[GadgetGuy]

I read online that Coka-Cola is getting rid of some of there sodas. Which ones, I don't know yet.

 

[rascal]

So I wasn't the only kid getting smokes via a hand written note from my mum.?

Russ

 

[GadgetGuy]

As kids, we weren't given a note for cigarettes. We just went over to the store.

 

[rascal]

As kids, we weren't given a note for cigarettes. We just went over to the store.

I suspect I as a kid was not good on memory, my son was the same, I'd send him over the road to the shops to get bread and he'd forget and return with a cabbage or something obscure? And no change.

Russ