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.

  • @33550336
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    Is this cool because it has Japan signs? Has it any more features than US machines? Or US has no vending machines at all?

    • SendPicsofSandwiches
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      There are vending machines but they generally don’t serve hot food or nearly the same amount of variety as Japanese machines do. Usually only soft drinks and shelf-stable snacks like candy bars, chips, cookies or crackers.

    • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️
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      This looks like it’s serving hot food. US vending machines only have cold or room temp packaged stuff. They’re very basic. The range of machines in Japan is seemingly endless, and many of them are far more complex machine wise than what we typically have here.

      • osaerisxero
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        This is not exactly accurate. There are vending machines in the states which produce full cooked products. I’ve mostly only seen them in Airports ,and they generally cost more than a comparable meal at an actual airport restaurant .

          • @maryjayjay
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            Those automats had a fully staffed kitchen behind them, cooking and placing the food in slots to be bought

        • HobbitFoot
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          Yeah. There are vending machines that will cook you a pizza. It just turns out there isn’t that high a demand for vending machine pizza.

    • @[email protected]
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      This vending machine is serving good that comes out already heated/ at the very least warmed. It’s not just bags of chips