It’s not quite Japan, which has over 5 million vending machines (one for every 23 people), but our local shopping centre is bristling with various vending machines. You can rent tools, drop off and collect laundry and dry-cleaning, have passport photographs taken, create a new telephone case, buy sanitary products and condoms (in the restrooms), and rent a phone powerbank.
Can anyone here remember cigarette vending machines?
cigarette vending machines are also quite common here in austria. the only concession to the 21st century are slots for ids
I remember cigarette vending machines used to be on the street outside shops so you could buy cigarettes at any time of day or night.
In Germany, we only have the cigarette vending machines and none of these fancy ones you have… We still love in the 20th century!…
That’s strange – I have not seen a cigarette vending machine in decades, but the others have popped up like mushrooms. I think there should be umbrella vending machines too, though I always have one with me.
Germany is always behind times in terms of technology… When I arrived in 2006, people looked at me like I had 3 heads when I was trying to pay for my shopping with a debit card… Regarding the cigarette machines, I saw that they still had Gauloises!…