Vending Machine Weekly – Feb. 14th 2010
Here are updates to the vending machine world for this week.
Have a favorite Deli where you visit for the best sandwiches and meat? Why not try Ike's Place vending machine. The Deli, based in San Francisco is a frequented place, and people just love their sandwiches. They are conducting a survey on how well-liked a vending machine featuring their sandwiches might be. (source: San Francisco's Favorite Deli Coming to a Vending Machine Near You)
What if you really like your iPhone, but you just can't deal with the fact nothing else compares? Try out the Diji-Touch vending machine, which features an iPhone-like interface, for all those tech-lovers out there. (source: Why Diji-Touch's iPhone-Inspired Vending Machines Rule)
Our First Lady is hard at work, trying to stave sugar-filled snack vending machines at schools, instead offering more healthy alternatives. This is probably a good time to serve those healthy snacks, in a healthy snack vending machine instead! (source: Daily Buzz: So Long, Snickers and More School Vending Machine Favorites)
We earlier reported in our first weekly updated for Feb. 1st, that the United Kingdom is trying to legislate the sale of tobacco in vending machines. Well, if you're American, you already know there just isn't many cigarette vending machines around. However, this change in political thinking has caused outpours of contesting opinion. Particularly, tobacco companies like Imperial Tobacco are trying to fight it. (source: Imperial Tobacco To Contest UK Vending Machine Ban)
Updates to the Vending Machine World – A Week at a Glance
Here is a wrap-up of this weeks vending machine news.
PepsiCo debuts a new and completely Hydro-Fluoro-Carbon free machine at the Super Bowl, did I mention it was also energy efficient? PepsiCo says, "We introduced the first vending machine using CO2 technology to the US market last year, and today we are introducing the first HC cooler to the US market." (Source: PepsiCo Debuts Energy-Efficient, HFC-Free Cooler at Super Bowl)
And don't forget Feb. 7th will be the time for the Super Bowl!
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New discussion and possible outrage is arising over legislation over health bills that target snack vending machines. The legislation will require vending machine operators to include calorie and nutritional facts about their products being offered on their machines. TheStreet.com reports, "Just one mere sentence in the Senate version of the bill could cost the vending machine industry as much as $56.4 million in added costs during the first year of reform" (Source: Health Bills Target Tanning, Snack Machines)
How about something on the bleeding edge of vending machine technology? One article on ThomasNet News tells us of a wireless "machine to machine" device which is capable of relaying vending statistics back to the home base, from afar. It's the G-4500 Series, by ICP DAS USA, Inc. (Source: Machine to Machine Communication with G-4500 Series)
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