Comment on Third-party food delivery remains an uncertain businessparentComments−aaron6955yAutomated vending machine shops were around in the 1950 https://www.thoughtco.com/the-rise-and-fall-of-the-automat-4...I'd like to understand why Japan has a vending machine culture. I would guess it's regulatory, but it might be crime related.−bombcar5yI suspect it has more to do with trying to serve “all hours” without the associated staffing costs - an American example used to be rest stops before everything went 24hr. They used to have soup dispensing machines and more.
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Automated vending machine shops were around in the 1950 https://www.thoughtco.com/the-rise-and-fall-of-the-automat-4...
I'd like to understand why Japan has a vending machine culture. I would guess it's regulatory, but it might be crime related.
I suspect it has more to do with trying to serve “all hours” without the associated staffing costs - an American example used to be rest stops before everything went 24hr. They used to have soup dispensing machines and more.