with supply and demand and all… IM DEMANDING CANNED BREAD!! where’s the supply 🥺?

It replaces workers with robots so it would probably save money too.

  • partial_accumen
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    381 month ago

    Bro, do you even vend?

    Pizza vending machine in Seattle:

    Cupcake ATM in Beverly Hills (and 3 other cities I’ve been in including Orlando FL and Las Vegas):

    • @TriflingToad@lemmy.worldOP
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      51 month ago

      Oh that’s rad! Wonder if the amount of public areas in cities could relate to have more vending machines. The closest city to me doesn’t have a lot of public spaces.

      • partial_accumen
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        81 month ago

        I would imagine the requirement would be high foot traffic. Food has an incredibly short shelf life compared to other vending machine contents. That pizza vending machine likely has to be serviced/refilled/cycled every 2 or 3 days. The cupcake ATM would be slightly longer. Most of the cupcake ATMs are attached to the cupcake bakeries, but allow customers to buy from the ATM outside of business hours or when the line of customer is really long inside.

        • @False@lemmy.world
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          51 month ago

          The pizza vending machine is in a hotel a block away from a larger physical location by for the same company. So similar arrangement. Probably easy for them to maintain

          • partial_accumen
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            11 month ago

            Probably easy for them to maintain

            Agreed. I made the maintenance comment as to why pizza vending machines aren’t more widespread.

      • partial_accumen
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        11 month ago

        About 4 min. There’s a countdown on the screen after you pay and your order is being prepared.