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Wednesday, August 18, 2010

Behold your future

Just saw this post up at the Consumerist: Are Automated Kiosks The Future of Retail Shopping?

In recent years, vending machines have gone from lunch room relics intent on eating your quarters and holding onto your Sun Chips to high-tech automated kiosks that sell everything from DVDs to ice creamwine, beauty products, useless Farmville crap, electronics, designer bags and much more. But are they here to stay or is this just a trend?

Heh...Japan has been peddling all kinds of stuff in vendos for years and years. Gaze into your future and despair, America! But seriously, I think more vending machines (or automated kiosks) are a good idea. They save space and spare me from having to interact with actual human beings.