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Ever since several trips to Japan and their wonderfully complete universal vending capabilities. I have researched the use of vending machines and their integration with data streams. Which can be used to indicate demand and supply requirements. Even communicate back to headquarters.
Here is a recent outline, incomplete, but an interesting overview of interesting vending ideas. The hugging machine is interesting. On the right is the Coke Freestyle machine, a great example of late stage product differentiation, now fairly common in the US. I see there is
a good technical description here.
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