@Anonymous wrote:
@Anonymous wrote:
@Anonymous wrote:
@Anonymous wrote:
I always felt like these were too much work.
I guess if you could go to a grocery store and scan & pay for 10 <$1 items individually, you could come out ahead.
Vending machines my friend! My go to for meeting a transaction minimum on a debit card.
Aren’t most items in a vending machine overpriced and would cut into any profit here? Now if gumball machines took debit cards that would be a dream.
The ones on campus where I go to school are fairly reasonable with the exception the beef jerky and the Starbucks Frappuccino prices. But tis the price you pay to not have to walk a zillion miles in the blazing heat to the actual Starbucks or the Chick-Fil-A. My department's building is at the very back of a 145 acre campus and of course all the food is on the front edge of campus. I've been trying to convince the dean to give us a coffee cart at least! Nerds need caffeine too!
I don't really use it, but the vending machine in my workplace is fairly reasonably priced (though we got a notice that the prices are going up /again/ in less than a year). The drink machine is still cheaper on 20oz than any store (1.35, no tax vs 1.89+tax at stores). Also, any matching snack at the nearby convenience store is more expensive than the vending machine. Most expensive item in the vending machine is, as Citalix said, meat snacks. Usually either jerky or dried nuggets, and they're only $2 vs $2.75 across the street.
