Next Generation Vending and Food Service is experimenting with biometric vending machines that would allow a user to tie a credit card to their thumbprint.O vending machine, whatever will become of you?
It does seem that I see a lot fewer vending machines than I used to. It is also possible that the move away from cash could be one explanation. In that light it is appropriate for the vending machine to evolve to meet the spending habits of modern consumers by integrating non-cash purchases as efficiently as possible.
But is it possible that there are other forces at play here? More and more people live within a few miles of a big box store that stays open all night and these 24-hour big box stores are adding more and more self service checkout lanes.
Have we simply super-sized vending machines?
